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The Burkinabe army announced today that it had arrested sixty suspects during an operation in the north of the country, which it said was "the dismantling of terrorist bases."
The closure operation and search of "suspect areas" in the "northern border strip" began on July 8, said the Burkinabe army in a statement. "These actions, carried out with the support of the air force, allowed the dismantling of terrorist bases and the arrest of about a hundred suspicious individuals."
"After verification, sixty of them were transferred to the security services. investigation of the gendarmerie and the others were released ", according to the army, which is also part of the seizure of many components (explosives, batteries, electric wires) involved in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices, as well as products contraband. During this operation, three soldiers were wounded.
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Today in this same zone, two people , including the head of a village in northern Burkina Faso and border with Mali, were killed by armed individuals, the Ministry of Security announced. "On the night of Tuesday 17 to Wednesday, July 18, 2018, the leader of Hocoulourou, kidnapped on July 7, 2018 by a group of armed men, was brought back and executed at the entrance to Baraboulé," said a statement. "In the early morning, the body of a peasant killed by bullets was found not far from that of the chief", adds the text.
"These executions were perpetrated by unidentified armed individuals who melted in nature after their packages, "says the ministry. The Defense and Security Forces began searching the area in search of "criminals."
A pastor and four members of his family abducted in early June in Bilhoré, a village in the northern province of Soum, by armed individuals, are still captive. According to a family member, who says he was last contacted on June 30, the kidnappers demand ransom and the pastor's conversion to Islam.
A total of eight hostages including Dr. Kenneth Eliot , kidnapped in northern Burkina Faso, are still captive in Mali, in a camp near the border of Burkina Faso, according to an AFP count. Long spared by armed groups active in the Sahel, Burkina Faso has been confronted for three years with frequent and deadly attacks and kidnappings in the north of the country.
These attacks spread to other regions including East, bordering Togo and Benin and where there are also armed bandits and smugglers. In recent months, several hundred people have been arrested and explosive devices disabled during raking operations in the eastern and northern parts of the country.
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