The Burkina Faso authorities announced on Saturday evening the killing of 41 civilians and soldiers, in an attack carried out by armed men, Thursday, in the north of the country, whose President Roch Marc Christian Kabore declared 48 hours of national mourning.
The government said in a statement on Saturday evening that “the combing mission in the area of the ambush set by armed terrorist groups against a convoy of homeland defense volunteers on Thursday, December 23 and civilians found 41 bodies,” explaining that the country’s president declared “a 48-hour national mourning.”
