Burkina Faso: twenty civilians killed in an attack in Lamdamol

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Twenty civilians were killed in the night from Saturday to Sunday February 2, 2020 in a "jihadist attack" in Lamdamol, a village in the north of Burkina Faso, we learned on Sunday from a security source.

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" Unidentified armed individuals attacked the village of Lamdamol on the night of Saturday to Sunday, killing nearly 20 civilians, " a security source told AFP. " The heavily armed attackers on board motorcycles literally executed the inhabitants of the locality " located in the commune of Bani, 40 km from Gorgadji, in the province of Séno.

According to a health worker joined to Dori by AFP, " the head nurse of the local health center, who joined his post in the village of Lamdamol, was killed in this attack ". “There is panic in the village and the surrounding localities. The populations are fleeing towards the center-north, even residents of Gorgadji are deserting the area, ”he said.

Another security source, contacted by AFP, confirmed this jihadist attack, evoking " reprisals against the inhabitants who had been summoned a few days earlier to leave the places ".

On 25 January, 39 civilians were killed in a jihadist attack, perpetrated in the village of Silgadji , a town in the commune of Tongomayel, in the province of Soum. Burkina Faso, bordering Mali and Niger, is facing jihadist attacks that have left nearly 800 dead since 2015.

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