The Burkina Faso army has said that fifty-three members of the security forces have been killed in an attack on Tuesday by suspected jihadists in the northern part of the country.
According to the Army General Staff in a statement, seventeen soldiers and thirty -six civilian volunteers for the army died while repelling what he simply described as an “attack”.
The unit had been deployed in the town of Koumbri in Yatenga province to help the resettlement of residents forced out of the area by jihadists more than two years ago.
The army however, said that several attackers had been neutralised in a counter-operation while their combat equipment had been destroyed as operations were still under way in the area.
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