APA – Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Multiple attacks have taken place in Burkina Faso since Monday, leaving around thirty people dead.
In the Centre-East region, a violent clash took place on Monday 5 June between soldiers and civilian vigilantes on the one hand and jihadists on the other near the town of Sawenga in the province of Boulgou.
According to unofficial provisional figures, at least four soldiers and 14 VDPs were killed in the skirmish and several others wounded, according to sources corroborating each other.
Material damage was also reported.
The sources reported Burkina Faso fighters in victorious mood after they managed to neutralise more than sixty armed men.
On the same day, armed men kidnapped and executed a man on the outskirts of the town of Nouna, in the Boucle du Mouhoun region.
The following day, Tuesday 6 June, three civilians were killed in Mourdié, about ten kilometres from Nouna.
On Monday night, the Yendere border police station in the west of the country was the target of an attack.
One policeman and two civilians were killed and extensive material damage was caused.
On Tuesday, at least seven civilians, including an army auxiliary, were killed in three jihadist attacks in the Centre-North region.
A security volunteer was killed in Sirgui, a civilian in Sandgo and five others in Gargo.
Burkina Faso is regularly targeted by armed jihadist groups, which have claimed thousands of victims and displaced more than two million people.
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