By Christian George
Not fewer than 44 have been killed in an attack by terrorists in two villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border.
The lieutenant-governor of the Sahel region, Rodolphe Sorgho said on Saturday that the provisional toll of “this despicable and barbaric attack” which targeted the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi in northeast Burkina Faso overnight Thursday “is 44 civilians killed and others wounded.”
The governor recounted that 31 people had died in Kourakou and 13 in Tondobi.
According to Punch, the regional official said that an army offensive put “out of action the armed terrorist groups” that carried out the killings.
He has assured that actions to stabilize the area are underway.
A resident of Kourakou narrated that a large number of terrorists burst into the village late Thursday.
“All night long, we heard gunfire. It was on Friday morning that we saw that there were several dozen dead,” he added.
This happens to be the deadliest attack since Captain Ibrahim Traore came to power in a coup last September.
