OUAGADOUGOU, Feb 7 (NNN-IRIN) – At least 25 people were killed on Saturday, in a terrorist attack in northern Burkina Faso’s Sahel Region, said a regional government official, last night.
In a statement, Lieutenant Colonel Rodolphe Sorgho, who is the governor of the Sahel Region, said, armed terrorist groups perpetrated a violent attack, Saturday afternoon, in the commune of Bani, of the province of Seno, killing 25 people, including 22 civilians and three police officers.
Since 2015, insecurity in the West African country has claimed many lives and displaced thousands more.
Last week, at least 28 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed, in two separate gunmen attacks in Burkina Faso, a regional governor and the army revealed.
