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‘Barbaric’ attacks leave 44 civilians dead in Burkina Faso

‘Barbaric’ attacks leave 44 civilians dead in Burkina Faso

‘Armed terrorist groups’ attacked two villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border

Forty-four civilians have been killed by “armed terrorist groups” in two villages in north-eastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border, a regional governor said Saturday.

The provisional toll of “this despicable and barbaric attack” which targeted the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi overnight on Thursday “is 44 civilians killed and others wounded,” said Rodolphe Sorgho, lieutenant-governor of the Sahel region.

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