Booby Trap

Booby Trap event in Sahel, Soum area, Burkina Faso on Thu 14th February 2019

14th February 2019

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On February 14, the army and police were dispatched following an alert on a dead body 4km south of Djibo (coded as Tilere at geoprecision 2), corpse was booby-trapped and exploded when the unit attempted to move it, killing two soldiers and wounded six others. The incident is the first of its kind and the trap was likely set up by JNIM militants.

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Burkina Faso (BFA)

Sahel ( Soum area )

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