The president of Burkina Faso says jihadists have attacked a town in the country's north and killed 35 civilians, most of them women.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Jihadists attacked a town in northern Burkina Faso and killed 35 civilians, most of them women, and ensuing clashes with security forces left 80 jihadists dead, the West African nation’s president announced late Tuesday.
Jihadist attacks are frequent in the area but the provisional toll released Tuesday evening was unprecedented. For years Burkina Faso was spared the kind of Islamic extremism long seen across the border in Mali, where it took a 2013 French-led military intervention to dislodge jihadists from power in several major towns.
Frequent attacks in the country’s north and east already have displaced more than a half million people, according to the United Nations.
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