Nineteen killed in attack in Burkina Faso
June 11, 2019
8:55 am
Unidentified assailants killed nineteen people and wounded 13 in an attack on and around the town of Arbinda in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, the government said.
Hundreds of people have died in Islamist violence over the past months and more than 150,000 have been forced to flee as jihadist groups spreads across the arid Sahel region.
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