Other MoA event in Sahel, Boukouma area, Burkina Faso on Thu 19th August 2021

In Burkina Faso, around thirty civilians and fourteen gendarmes killed in an attack on a convoy. Populations who left the town of Dori and were going to Arbinda a hundred kilometers away were the target of this new attack. Defense forces and volunteers managed to neutralize 58 terrorists according to a security source. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré decreed a national mourning of 72 hours from this Thursday. With our correspondent in Ouagadougou, Yaya Boudani Given the insecurity situation in the Sahel region, civilians wishing to travel from Arbinda-Dori, a hundred kilometers away, do not take the road alone. Traders and residents take advantage of convoys of security forces to travel in both directions. The convoy thus left Dori at midday with many civilians who had come to refuel. Gendarmes and volunteers for the defense of the fatherland were responsible for securing it according to an official source. It was in the afternoon around 2 p.m. that this convoy was the target of armed men. Armed men appeared and opened fire in the town of Boukouma, 25 km from Gorgadji. Fourteen gendarmes and three volunteers killed Thirty civilians were killed. 14 gendarmes and 3 volunteers for the defense of the Fatherland also fell according to the official toll. We report 30 wounded, all evacuated to Dori and Ouagadougou for the most serious cases, according to our sources. In their response, the security forces and volunteers neutralized 58 terrorists according to a security source. " The enemies managed to flee with some of their wounded, " said the same source. The president of Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré decreed a national mourning of 72 hours from this Thursday at midnight.