13 Gendarmes Murdered In Northern Burkina Faso

13 Gendarmes Murdered In Northern Burkina Faso
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Gunmen killed no fewer than 13 Gendarmes in an ambush yesterday at Taparko, a mining town in Burkina Faso, Africa Daily News, New York has learnt. 

A security source who spoke to newsmen said; ‘a team from the gendarmerie at Dori fell into an ambush set by armed individuals this afternoon near Taparko’.

‘As well as the 13 confirmed dead, a number of other gendarmes were missing’, the source added.

Another security source who preferred to remain anonymous stated that reinforcements had been called in and were searching the sector for eight missing gendarmes.

An additional eight gendarmes were wounded in the attack, two of them seriously, and they had been evacuated for treatment in Tougouri.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Taparko is a mining town regularly targeted by jihadist fighters.

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Reports of this latest attack came as two people were killed and several others injured when a bus hit a landmine Sunday, also near Taparko.

Only days earlier, an attack on another gold mine in the region left 10 people dead.

Burkina Faso has been struggling with jihadist attacks since 2015, when militants linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group began mounting cross-border raids from Mali.

More than 2,000 people have died.

The flashpoint ‘tri-border’ area in the north is frequently targeted by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM) with deadly attacks against civilians and soldiers.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that attacks with homemade bombs have multiplied since 2018, costing the lives of around 300 people, civilians and military.

A junta had on January 24 seized power in Ouagadougou and has made tackling the insurgency a priority. Ousted president Roch Marc Christian Kabore was unable to contain the insurgency.

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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