About 50 soldiers were killed in a militant attack on a base in Burkina Faso
Source: Reuters
About 50 soldiers were killed in an attack by armed militants on an army base in northern Burkina Faso, News.Az reports citing the Associated Press news agency.
"As a result of an attack by an armed group on a military base in northern Burkina Faso, about fifty soldiers were killed," the report says.
As noted, the jihadist group Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam Wal Muslimin (JNIM, linked to Al-Qaeda, a terrorist group banned in Russia) is suspected of carrying out an attack on a military base in the Bulsa commune. According to the agency's sources, about 100 militants participated in the attack, they looted and burned the base.
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