Posted on 06/01/2020 2:07:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Gunmen on motorbikes fired into the crowded market in Kompienga town around lunchtime on Saturday, eyewitnesses and residents said.
Local media earlier reported 20 killed, while quoting sources as saying the death toll could be considerably higher. AFP news agency quoted local residents as saying 30 died.
The government blamed the attack on "terrorists", a phrase usually used to describe al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked jihadists Burkina Faso has been battling in recent years.
Despite occasional government claims of success against the Islamist militants, the insecurity in the north and east of Burkina Faso has dramatically escalated.
Jihadists have often targeted schools, forcing about 300,000 children out of education.
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Ah, Muslims. I never would have guessed.
This has already come to the US and we should expect the level of criminal, muslim terrorism to increase especially with so many sympathetic leftists in the US.
JoMa
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