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Four persons dead in fresh attack on Burkina Faso Christians

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Published: May 27, 2019
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Four persons were confirmed dead at a Christian region in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday at a Catholic church.

Justin Kientega, Bishop of Ouahigouya, confirmed the deaths in a statement saying:

“The Christian community of Toulfe was the target of a terrorist attack which gathered for Sunday prayers. The attack left four of the faithful dead.”

Earlier, Okay Nigeria News gathered from a source in the town of Toulfe that three persons were killed in the attacks.

“Heavily armed individuals attacked the church… as the faithful were celebrating Sunday mass.”

Also last week, French special forces freed four foreign hostages in the former French colony during an overnight raid that cost the lives of two soldiers.

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Burkina Faso’s population is around two-thirds Muslim and one-third Christian.

The semi-desert country has suffered from increasingly frequent and deadly attacks attributed to a number of jihadist groups, including the Ansarul Islam group, the Group to Support Islam and Muslims and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.

The raids began in 2015 in the north before targeting the capital Ouagadougou and other regions, notably in the east.

Nearly 400 people have been killed since 2015 — mainly in hit-and-run raids — according to an AFP tally.

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Jihadist groups target Christian clerics as well as Muslim ones they do not consider sufficiently radical in a country where traditionally both religions have co-existed peaceably.

France has deployed 4,500 troops in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad in a mission codenamed Barkhane to help local forces flush out jihadists.

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