ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast: Suspected Islamist militants attacked an army unit in northern Burkina Faso Sunday, the latest in a series of alleged jihadist attacks that have killed at least 10 people in four days, security sources told AFP.<\/p>\n
The west African country, ruled by a military junta since a 2022 coup, has been plagued with violence from militants allied to Al-Qaeda or the Daesh group for more than a decade.<\/p>\n
Social media has been awash with speculation that the spate of attacks may have killed dozens of soldiers, but AFP has been unable to independently verify those claims.<\/p>\n
The junta, which seized power on the promise to crack down on the violence, has ceased to communicate on jihadist attacks.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, militants carried out a major attack on a military detachment in the northern town of Nare, two security sources told AFP.<\/p>\n
The previous day, the Burkinabe army\u2019s unit in the northern city of Titao was \u201ctargeted by a group of several hundred terrorists,\u201d one of the sources said.<\/p>\n
While the source did not give a death toll for either attack, they said part of the military base in Titao had been destroyed.<\/p>\n
The interior minister of Ghana, which borders Burkina Faso to the south, said the government had \u201creceived disturbing information from Burkina Faso of a truck carrying tomato traders from Ghana which was caught in a terrorist attack in Titao.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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