At least 18 people have been killed in two attacks in Burkina Faso, sources briefed on the incidents told AFP on Sunday, as violence rages in the Sahel nation.
The country faces a jihadist insurgency that swept in from neighbouring Mali in 2015, with thousands of civilians, troops and police killed, and more than two million people forced to flee their homes.
“On Saturday afternoon, armed men attacked Bani,” a town about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Dori in the Sahel region, one resident said. “We deplore 12 dead according to the first toll,” another witness said.
A security source confirmed the attack, but gave no death toll.
Also on Saturday, six soldiers were killed in the country’s east when an improvised explosive device detonated, according to two security sources.
