According to residents, the target was the villages of Kuraku and Todobi, in retaliation for the lynching a few days earlier of two jihadists who had tried to steal animals.
Forty-four civilians were killed overnight Thursday in an attack on two villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the border with Niger, in a fresh bloodbath in the country plagued by jihadist violence.
“The provisional tally of this heinous and barbaric attack” which targeted the villages of Kuraku and Todobi “is 44 dead and wounded,” said the governor of the Sahel region, Lt. Col. Rodolphe Sorgo.
Thirty-one were killed in the village of Kurakou and 13 in Todobi, he clarifies.
According to a Kourakou resident contacted by AFP by phone, “a large number of terrorists invaded” the village late Thursday afternoon.
“Throughout the night we heard gunshots. On Friday morning we saw that there were several dozen dead,” he added.
According to residents, this location was targeted in retaliation for the lynching a few days earlier of two jihadists who had tried to steal livestock.
It is one of the deadliest attacks since Captain Ibrahim Traore took power after the September 30, 2022 coup.
Source :Skai
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