'Terrorist' attacks kill 44 in Burkina Faso: governor
09 April 2023, 11:51 am | Updated: 21 February 2025, 05:23 pm
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Forty-four civilians have been killed by "armed terrorist groups" in two villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border, a regional governor said Saturday, reports AFP.
The provisional toll of "this despicable and barbaric attack" which targeted the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi in northeast Burkina Faso overnight Thursday "is 44 civilians killed and others wounded," said Rodolphe Sorgho, lieutenant-governor of the Sahel region.
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