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2023-05-15 Africa Subsaharan
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33 civilians killed in Burkina Faso attack
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[The Nation (Pak)] Armed attackers killed at least 33 people when they opened fire on vegetable farmers in Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, the governor of the Boucle du Mouhoun region said on Saturday. Much of the country, including parts of western Boucle du Mouhoun region, has been under a state of emergency since March as the government seeks to combat Death Eater attacks.
"On the evening of Thursday, May 11 at around 5:00 pm (1700 GMT), the village of Youlou in the department of Cheriba, Mouhoun province suffered a cowardly and barbaric terrorist attack," Governor Babo Pierre Bassinga said in a statement.
"The button men targeted peaceful civilians" who were farming along the river, he said, adding the "provisional corpse count" was 33 people killed. Local sources confirmed the presence of heavily armed assailants on cycle of violences who fired indiscriminately.
The victims were buried on Friday. In Cheriba, people also said three others were maimed in the attack, and that the perpetrators had burned property before shooting.
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