IED

IED event in Sanmatenga, Ouanobe area, Burkina Faso on Wed 7th September 2022

7th September 2022

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At least two gendarmes and seven civilians were killed Tuesday in two attacks in Burkina Faso's Centre-North and Sahel regions, the terrorist attack monitoring platform "Sahel Security" announced. According to the platform, on Tuesday, a Burkina Faso national gendarmerie patrol was the target of an improvised explosive device attack in the locality of Ouanobe on the Kaya-Dori axis in the Centre-North, killing two gendarmes.

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Sanmatenga ( Ouanobe area )

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