Attacks carried out on the night of Sunday 28 to Monday 29 March in the north of Côte d'Ivoire, near Burkina Faso, against two "
positions of the armed forces
" left at least six dead (two soldiers, a gendarme and three "
Terrorists
"), the army announced on Monday March 29 in a press release.
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The first attack carried out in Kafolo "
is the fact of about sixty heavily armed terrorists coming from Burkina Faso
", indicates the army which specifies that there are also "
four wounded side friend
" and that four attackers were arrested and “
Logistical material seized (armament, radio, ammunition and motorcycles).
The Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire pushed back the attackers after an hour of intense combat and implemented a search operation
”which continues, according to the press release signed by General Lassina Doumbia, Chief of the General Staff Ivorian armies.
"
The second attack occurred in Kolobougou, 60 km north-west of the Tehini department on the border with Burkina Faso, where a gendarmerie post was the target of unidentified individuals
, ”added the army.
“
An Ivorian gendarme was killed and another is injured.
No victim discovered on the enemy side for the time being,
”she says.
On the night of June 10 to 11, 2020, an attack against the Ivorian army had already occurred in Kafolo, in which 14 soldiers had been killed.
Attributed to jihadists who strike in several neighboring countries (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger), this attack had not been claimed.
Côte d'Ivoire was hit for the first time by a jihadist attack in March 2016, in the seaside town of Grand-Bassam, near Abidjan: attackers opened fire on the beach and hotels, killing 19 people.
