According to the Staff of the Burkina Army, at least ten troops were killed and fifty were injured on Monday in a “terrorist onslaught” in the northern Burkinabe city of Djibo, which had been under terrorist siege for three months.
The fourteenth armed regiment in Djibo was the target of a terrorist attack on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Staff. The statement also stated that “the temporary outcome is the death of ten troops during the clashes and the wounded of fifty.”
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She added that “the regiment elements courageously responded to direct and indirect shooting by the enemy who attacked a large number,” explaining that “at least 18 bodies were counted among the enemy during the continuing combing operations. ”
The Staff continued that “air reinforcements were deployed in the region to ensure rescue and return operations.
According to security sources cited by France Presse, “the onslaught began before five o’clock (local and GMT) by shelling the barracks.
“Targeting other critical facilities in the city,” she said, pointing.
The city of Djibo has been suffering for three months a siege that was hit by jihadists who cut off the main roads by bombing bridges.
Witnesses claimed that given that the city is the capital of the Sahel region in northern Burkina, and that it is home to 300,000 people, including a sizable number of displaced persons, the condition in the city is embarrassing.
A gunman attack on a Djibo convoy on September 26 that was officially blamed on al-Qaeda claimed the lives of 37 persons, including 27 soldiers. According to their union, 70 truck drivers are still unaccounted for.
One of the key causes of the September 30 coup in Burkina, which was carried out by Captain Ibrahim Traore and the Leftan Colonel Paul Henry Damiba, was this attack.
And that second coup in eight months, with the coupists ’condemnation every time with the deterioration of the security situation in this country, which has witnessed a jihadi violence seven years ago..
A northern Burkina Faso offensive resulted in 10 troops dying and 50 being injured.
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