While the deposed government has announced the death toll of soldiers killed during the Gaskindé attack on 26 September at 11, the army is preparing the funeral and burial of 27 of them, scheduled for Friday, 7 October 2022.
On 26 September, a supply convoy bound for the town of Djibo, more than 200 kilometres from Ouagadougou, was ambushed by jihadists.
In an initial assessment, the army reported 11 dead and about 50 civilians fatalities.
According to an internal note of the Burkinabe army seen by APAnews, 27 soldiers died in the incident.
They will be buried Friday in Ouagadougou.
At the beginning of September, a convoy of civilians, mainly traders and on their way to Ouagadougou, was ambushed on the Djibo-Kongoussi road.
At least 32 people were killed and 37 injured, according to an official report.
For many observers, the Gaskindé attack precipitated the fall of Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba last weekend.
Damiba, who toppled Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, was in turn overthrown by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who was appointed interim leader of Burkina Faso on Sunday 2 October.
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