{"id":187013,"date":"2022-08-10T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T01:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=187013"},"modified":"2022-08-10T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T01:49:04","slug":"15-soldiers-killed-in-burkina-faso-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=187013","title":{"rendered":"15 Soldiers Killed In Burkina Faso Blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 10 (NNN-IRIN) &#8211; Terrorist attack on a military escort mission, left 15 soldiers dead yesterday, in northern Burkina Faso, the army said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statement, the attack targeted an escort mission, being conducted by a military unit on the road from Bourzanga to Djibo, in the Centre-North region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the vehicles of the convoy, carrying combatants, hit an improvised explosive device, near Namsiguia district in Bam province, in the Centre-North region, the army said. A second device was activated remotely, causing a number of casualties, while rescue and security operations were being carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The toll of the two blasts stood at 15 militaries killed and another injured. Material damage was also recorded,&#8221; the army said, adding that, security operations were ongoing in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security in Burkina Faso has worsened since 2015, as attacks have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced more than 1.9 million others in the West African nation.&#8211; NNN-IRIN  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 10 (NNN-IRIN) &#8211; Terrorist attack on a military escort mission, left 15 soldiers dead yesterday, in northern Burkina Faso, the army said in a statement. According to the statement, the attack targeted an escort mission, being conducted by a military unit on the road from Bourzanga to Djibo, in the Centre-North region. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187014,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187013\/revisions\/187014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}