By RFPosted on 03-11-2019Modified on 03-11-2019 at 22:51
Oumarou Dicko, deputy mayor of Djibo, was killed Sunday, November 3 in an attack. On his way to Ouagadougou, he and the other three occupants of his vehicle were ambushed at Gaskindé, a village just outside Djibo.
The attack, according to the governor of the Sahel region, took place Sunday, November 3 around 12 local hours. The deputy mayor had left the commune of Djibo for Ouagadougou, the capital. With him, in his vehicle, three other passengers, a member of his family, an agent of the town hall of Djibo and the driver.
No sooner have they left Djibo, than they fall into an ambush, not far from Gaskindé. " The vehicle in which the four victims were was subjected to a combined attack perpetrated by unidentified armed individuals, " said Colonel Major Salfo Kaboré, governor of the Sahel region.
According to our sources, the mayor's vehicle jumped on an improvised explosive device. Two occupants died instantly. The deputy mayor, who had survived this first attack, was removed from the vehicle and shot at close range in front of passengers on a transport bus, who came to help the wounded.
" We took the wounded out of the car and the attackers took them away and we heard gunshots, " a witness said. But the bus passengers were not worried by the attackers, according to our sources. According to the same witnesses, the attackers had " rocket launchers and sophisticated weapons ".
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