At least thirteen Burkinabe gendarmes were killed on Sunday in an ambush near Taparko, a mining town in the north of the country plagued by frequent and deadly jihadist attacks, we learned from security sources.
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A team from the Dori gendarmerie fell into an ambush by armed individuals this afternoon around Taparko
,” a security source told AFP.
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The provisional report unfortunately reports 13 dead gendarmes.
Several others are still missing
.