It is "feared" that the two Spaniards and the Irishman who disappeared after an attack on Monday in eastern Burkina Faso
"have been killed by terrorists,"
a senior security service source told AFP on Tuesday. "At least two of the three Westerners were injured according to testimonies, which makes one fear that they have been found, or killed by terrorists," said this source, adding that the "chances" of finding them alive "diminish as the times passed. hours".
Two Spaniards, an Irishman and a Burkinabe are missing and three other people have been injured in an attack on Monday in eastern Burkina Faso against an anti-
poaching
patrol
accompanied by Western instructors and journalists, local and security sources reported.
The patrol, made up of
soldiers, rangers, instructors and western journalists,
"was the target of an attack in the Fada N'Gourma-Pama area," reported a senior local official, who specified that "the provisional balance is three people injured. and four reported missing. "
The attack was confirmed by security sources, one of whom assures that the disappeared Westerners "are two Spaniards and an Irishman,
all of them journalists-
instructors who work for an environmental protection NGO."
"According to the survivors, two of them (expatriates) were injured during the attack. They continue to search" for the four missing, added this source.
While another security source affirmed that the Spaniards have been found but
the Spanish consul denied it,
assuring that he has no news of them.
The attack was the work of
armed men who were traveling in two vans
and a dozen motorcycles, according to security sources.
They specified that the attackers took weapons and material, including two trucks and a drone.
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