OUAGADOUGOU, Dec 27 (NNN-IRIN) – Forty-one people had been killed, in an ambush carried out on Thursday, by armed terrorist groups against a column of civilian fighters from the homeland defence volunteers (VDP), in Burkina Faso’s northern Lorum province, government spokesman, Alkassoum Maiga, announced in a statement.
According to the same source, identification of the victims is still underway by the national gendarmerie.
The government strongly condemns this barbarity, and the president has decreed national mourning of forty-eight hours, from yesterday till today.
Security in Burkina Faso has worsened since 2015, with terrorist attacks having killed more than 1,000 people, and displaced over one million others in the West African nation.– NNN-IRIN
