Five civilian volunteers with the army in Burkina Faso were killed in an attack this week in the west of the country, security officials said on Saturday.
"A forward security forces position, composed mainly of auxiliaries from the Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland , was targeted by armed terrorist groups," said one official, using the army's term for jihadists.
"Unfortunately five people, all volunteers, were killed," he told AFP of Thursday's incident in the Gnangdin area, near the border with Togo and Ghana. The volunteers, who work with the army, are recruited locally, given weapons and three months' training.The incident triggered a protest among locals who blocked the main highway linking the region to the Togolese border, a local inhabitant told AFP on condition of anonymity."There is a unit in the area but it took them a while to react, which shouldn't have happened.
Since the unrest spread to Burkina Faso in 2015, it has killed around 26,000 people and forced some two million people to flee their homes, according to monitoring group ACLED.A fire at a vegetable market in north China killed eight people and injured 15 on Saturday, local authorities reported."The injured have been sent ...
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