Monitoring Desk
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO: Daesh has claimed responsibility for killing of over 70 soldiers in an ambush on a military convoy in northern part of Burkina Faso, Arab media reported on Saturday.
Violence linked to Daesh and Al-Qaeda has wrecked the African country for 7-year killing thousands of people and displacing nearly two million people in the region. Frustration at the government’s inability to stem the violence in the country also led to two coups in 2022.
Daesh claims responsibility for attack
This is the deadliest assault on soldiers since the new ruler, Capt. Ibrahim Traore, took power in September, and analysts add it could threaten his hold on power. A soldier told the media on the condition of anonymity that their convoy was outnumbered as over 300 militants encircled them, firing mortars and rockets. He added that they lost many men during the ambush.
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Some locals said that increase in violence against the military is retaliation for extrajudicial killing and torture by forces against people assumed to be militants.
