Burkina : une quarantaine de gardes forestiers tués samedi dans une attaque jihadiste (sources sécuritaires)
Around forty forestry agents, paramilitaries, were killed on Saturday in eastern Burkina Faso during a jihadist attack on a forestry post, security sources told AFP on Thursday.
The attack was claimed on Monday by the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
Between last Thursday and Sunday, the north and east of this Sahelian country ruled by a junta were the target of a series of attacks which resulted in several dozen deaths.
Burkina Faso has been facing deadly offensives by groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State for more than a decade across large parts of its territory.
On Saturday, the forestry post in Tandjari, a locality in the Gourma province, "was the target of a violent terrorist attack which left around forty dead," a security source in the eastern region told AFP.
"Some bodies were brought back to Fada N'Gourma for burial, but others could not be," the source continued, referring to "charred remains."
Confirming the attack, a second security source specified that "dozens of bodies" had been "found gathered in the trenches dug around the post by the terrorists, who stripped them of all their weapons before withdrawing before the deployment of reinforcements."
The forest rangers "are in shock because this is the deadliest attack that particularly affects water and forest agents," a paramilitary corps "less equipped" to face jihadist groups, according to this source.
On Saturday, another attack targeted Titao, the capital of Loroum province and an important city in the northwest of the country located between Ouahigouya and Djibo, killing about ten civilians, including seven Ghanaians. JNIM also claimed responsibility for this attack.
Other attacks have targeted military posts in recent days, notably in Naré (north) on Sunday. An attack in Bilanga (east) and on two army outposts in Ouahigouya (north) last Thursday were claimed by JNIM.
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