The Burkinabè army announced on Tuesday that ten gendarmes, two army auxiliaries, and a civilian were killed during a terrorist attack in the north of the country. “At least five gendarmes were injured and a dozen others”, missing, are still wanted”, specify the staff.
At least 13 people, including ten gendarmes, two army auxiliaries, and a civilian, were killed Monday during an attack by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe army announced on Tuesday, January 31.
Gendarmes and Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland located in Falangoutou, in the Sahel region (north), “faced a terrorist attack on Monday afternoon,” the army general staff said in a statement.
“The provisional record shows twelve fallen fighters, including two VDP”, according to the same source mentioned before.
The general staff confirms that this attack was carried out by “the residual elements of the armed groups” who “undertook to blindly attack the populations” after having been “defeated a few weeks ago by the forces engaged in the reconquest of the national territory”.
Felicitating the memory of “combatants who fell for their country”, the army staff “calls on the populations not to be discouraged by an enemy at bay and to mobilize more than ever behind the Defense and security and the VDP engaged in the reconquest of the territory”.