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“Burkina: fifteen civilians killed in ‘simultaneous attacks’ this weekend,” Africa News, November 21, 2023:
Fifteen civilians, including three army auxiliaries, were killed in “simultaneous attacks” by suspected jihadists on Saturday in eastern Burkina Faso, local and security sources told AFP on Tuesday.
These “simultaneous and synchronised attacks” took place in two neighbourhoods of Diapaga, the capital of Tapoa province in the east of the country, and left fifteen people dead, a local resident told AFP, an attack and death toll confirmed by a representative of the province’s civil society.
“Fifteen people, including three Volunteers for the Defence of the Homeland (VDP, civilian auxiliaries to the army) and twelve civilians, were killed by the murderous bullets of lawless men” who “carried out this attack”, said Kondia Pierre Yonli, a spokesman for civil society organisations, in a written note.
“The population, in total disarray, took them to their final resting place on Sunday 19 November at the Diapaga municipal cemetery”, he added….