At least 26
"terrorists"
were
"neutralized"
during two military operations carried out on September 11 and 13 in northern Burkina Faso, the Burkinabè general staff announced in a statement Monday.
On September 11, after an ambush in which four soldiers were killed in the Mentao area (Soum province),
“a search was organized to track down the attackers.
The operation made it possible to neutralize
(kill, editor's note)
eleven terrorists and recover their weaponry ”
, according to the general staff.
On September 13, another action
"by land and air forces was carried out against a group of terrorists in Loroum province."
The operation made it possible to neutralize fifteen terrorists and to recover weapons.
Rolling means and various other materials were destroyed during the operation ”
, according to the general staff.
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AFP could not confirm these reports from an independent source.
The army had already announced on September 15 that it had
"dismantled a terrorist base"
and
"neutralized two terrorists"
four days earlier, in the Tongomayel area, also in Soum province.
Burkina Faso, bordering Mali and Niger, has been the scene of regular jihadist attacks since 2015. The north of Burkina is the area most affected in the country by jihadist exactions which have left more than 1,100 dead and more than one. million internally displaced people, fleeing areas of violence.
Jihadist violence, mixed with inter-community conflicts, which affects the center of the Sahel, killed a total of 4,000 people in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in 2019, according to the UN.
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