About 60 women were kidnapped in mid-January by alleged jihadists in Arbida
Fifteen people were found dead yesterday, Monday, after they were kidnapped on Sunday by suspected jihadists in the western part of Burkina Faso, a local official announced today.
“The bodies of the victims were found with bullet wounds” near “the village of Lingekoro, in Comoe province, “where they had been abducted,” said Colonel Jean-Charles Sommet, who is governor of the Cascade region, which is near Ivory Coast.
He clarified that the bodies found are fifteen.
On Sunday night, two minibuses coming from Banfora, the capital of Cascade, were hijacked by gunmen in Lingekoro village, he said.
“The occupants, 8 men and 16 women, were removed” from the vehicles. Among them, “eight women and one man were released and ordered to go to Mangondara on foot,” an area located 30 kilometers from Lingekoro, he said.
The two minibuses were “subsequently set on fire and the other occupants were kidnapped”, he noted and asked the population “for greater cooperation with the defense and security forces, which remain determined together with the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (a militia that supports the army ), to fight until the victory of our people against all their enemies”.
Around 60 women were abducted in mid-January by alleged jihadists in Arbida, northern Burkina Faso, before being found a few days later.
Burkina Faso, especially its northern part, has been facing increasing attacks by jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State since 2015. These have claimed the lives of thousands of people and displaced at least 2 million.
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