At least 31 soldiers and three army auxiliaries were killed in an attack by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso on Monday, the army said Tuesday, security sources saying a separate attack left dozens dead.
“A supply convoy escorted by military units, returning from Djibo”, a city besieged for months by jihadists in the Sahel region (north), was this Monday “the target of an ambush” in Namsiguia, in the Central- North, according to a Burkina Faso army press release.
“More than forty terrorists have been neutralized”
“The fighting, particularly violent, caused significant losses, despite the energetic response of the units,” he adds, speaking of a “provisional assessment” of 31 soldiers and three Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland (VDP, civil auxiliaries of the army ) dead. , while “ten elements are still wanted by the reinforcements” sent to the place.
According to the army, “more than forty terrorists have been neutralized.”
The Army does not mention in its press release another attack committed on Monday in the same region which, according to AFP security sources, also caused “dozens of deaths”, most of them VDP.
“Terrorist groups attacked the village of Noaka” in the Center-North region, “mainly against the VDP”, according to one of these sources.
“We lost dozens of men at Noaka and several are wounded,” a local VDP official said. “Several other fighters are still missing,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
