Nearly a hundred jihadists have been neutralised on the Malian border since the end of the week, APA learnt on Wednesday.
The air force carried out air strikes yesterday, Tuesday, on the headquarters of a terrorist group in Kain-Ouro, on the border with Mali, the Burkina News Agency (AIB) reported.
APA was able to confirm the information from security sources who reported that about 20 Islamist insurgents were killed.
They said survivors, probably wounded, escaped with the bodies of neutralised attackers.
Their fighting and logistical equipment had also been destroyed, sources said.
The Burkinabe army has been conducting operations against jihadist groups on the border with Mali since the end of last week.
Militants belonging to the Support Group of Islam and Muslims (GSIM), who are grouped around certain leaders, have been the target of air strikes in the Oursi region of the Sahel, still on the border with Mali. According to national television, around 40 of them were killed.
The next day, Monday 27 March, survivors of the attacks who had returned to look for the bodies of their comrades killed the day before were targeted by air vectors. About twenty, according to sources.
Several other ongoing military operations have destroyed terrorist bases in the Centre-North and Sahel regions, notably in Tongomayel, Inata and Tougouri, also on the Malian border. They have also led to the killing of several jihadists.
According to security sources, offensive operations by the army and its auxiliaries will continue throughout the country.
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