Burkina Faso: at least 20 dead in an attack in Soum
An attack killed at least 20 people in Inata in northern Burkina Faso.
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In Burkina Faso, 20 people killed including 19 gendarmes and a civilian, it is the still provisional toll of one in the province of Soum this Sunday.
Armed men stormed the gendarmerie detachment early this Sunday.
It is one of the deadliest attacks suffered by the defense and security forces since the attacks began in the country.
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With our correspondent in Ouagadougou,
Yaya Boudani
"
Figures that are always difficult to accept when we have victims since we have been in this war situation
" declared Ousséni Tamboura, the government spokesperson, announcing the news of the attack.
It took place at the old Inata mine.
Armed men who came on motorcycles and pickup vehicles, according to security sources, attacked the gendarmerie detachment around 5 a.m.
And there was fighting.
"
We suffered a cowardly and barbaric attack, but the men bravely resisted the enemy,
" maintains Maxime Koné, the Minister of Security.
The Air Force was involved in the reconquest of the attacked site.
A security source said that the men who carried out the attack were there from 3 a.m. and remained there until 6 a.m.
Research is underway to find possible survivors, because several gendarmes are missing.
The area where the attack took place is quite large according to the authorities.
“
Since we've been in this war.
We continue to suffer unfair attacks which are causing us to lose men,
”the government spokesperson said indignantly.
Friday, November 12, seven police officers had already died in an attack in the same region.
►Also read: Burkina Faso: civil society expresses its fed up with the security situation
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