Burkina Faso: Many women killed in jihadist attack
Suspected Islamist militants have killed 35 people, nearly all women, in an attack on a military base and a town in Burkina Faso, local officials say.
They say seven soldiers and 80 militants were killed as the army repelled Tuesday's attack in Arbinda, the northern Soum province. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore declared two days of national mourning in the landlocked West African country.Earlier this month, at least 14 people were killed after gunmen opened fire inside a church in eastern Burkina Faso. Jihadist attacks have increased in Burkina Faso since 2015.
Once relatively stable, Burkina Faso has descended into serious unrest, with a home-grown insurgency and the spill over from jihadist militancy in Mali. Hundreds of people have been killed this year and a million displaced.
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