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Four people killed in Burkina bus attack
OUAGADOUGOU, April 24, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Armed gunmen stopped a bus
travelling in northern Burkina Faso and shot dead four passengers, local
sources said Wednesday, with jihadists suspected of staging the attack.
Passengers had their ID’s checked before the shooting took place, a local
authority told AFP, after the bus was intercepted in the village of Liki on
Tuesday.
“The four people killed were from the same ethnic community,” while the
others were not harmed, the source said.
“It was probably members of armed terrorist groups that are active in the
region,” the source added. Burkina Faso, a former French colony, has seen a
surge in attacks blamed on radical Islamist groups — mainly the Ansaroul
Islam group and the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) — in the last
four years.
In early April, 62 people were killed in jihadist attacks and subsequent
intercommunal clashes in northern Burkina Faso, which lies near the Mali
border.
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