In total, as a result of hostilities in the region, at least two thousands of people.
In fighting Burkina Faso declared two days of mourning. In the north of this African country, extremists have killed 41 people. Among them are members of the Homeland Defense Volunteers self-defense unit created to support the army and its leader Laji Yoro. The identification of all victims continues.
The massacre took place on Thursday 23 December. Mourning was announced on December 26 and 27. This is reported by arabnews.com.
“A search mission in the ambush area of armed terrorist groups … found 41 bodies. The President declared national mourning for 48 hours,” the government of Burkina Faso said in a statement released in the evening December 25th.
Local media reported that the ambush was aimed at a convoy of traders accompanied by a self-defense squad near Ouahiguya, a town near the Mali border.
Note that in November there was another massacre in this troubled area. Then 57 people were killed, including 53 gendarmes. And in early December, an explosion occurred in neighboring Mali, as a result of which seven UN peacekeepers were killed, and three more were seriously injured.
Recall the fighting in Burkina Faso, as well as neighboring Mali and Niger continue from 2012-2015. National governments are fighting militant armed groups linked to the terrorist Al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
The fighting has left at least 2,000 people dead and 1.4 million forced to flee. a dangerous region.
Earlier it was reported that the authorities of the African state of Mali, which lost control over the northern regions of the country, invited Russian private military company to fight terrorists.
