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Suspected jihadists kill 10 in Burkina Faso

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Suspected jihadists killed roughly ten civilians in northern Burkina Faso, while four persons were kidnapped, according to officials onTuesday.

According to a military spokesman, “about 10 people were executed” after armed men, most likely from the region’s Islamic State branch, ambushed residents of Dambam on their way to market.

The attack took occurred in the country’s north, near the Niger border, on Monday.

According to him, troops “were deployed in the area to strengthen security and search it since four other persons” went missing on their way to the Markoye market.

A local official said “terrorists set up a checkpoint on the road between Dambam and Markoye and intercepted all those heading to the market”.

He said the “four people who went missing were kidnapped by the jihadists” as the assailants targeted people on foot, motorcycles and other vehicles.

Another local official told AFP “most of the victims were murdered in a cowardly manner, their throats slit” and vehicles burned.

The official said armed groups made incursions into a number of communities in the northern Sahel region on October 29-30.

“They looted property, carried off livestock or kidnapped residents,” the official said.

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