20 killed in Burkina Faso terrorist attack

SANAA, Nov. 15 (YPA) – At least Twenty people, including 19 military police officers, were killed in Burkina Faso on Sunday by Islamist militant groups linked to Islamic State (ISIS) Daesh, Security Minister Maxime Kone said.

Kony explained that  19 military police and a civilian were killed by gunmen in the northern border region.

“This morning a detachment of the gendarmerie suffered a cowardly and barbaric attack. They held their position,” Kone said on national television, adding that 22 survivors had been found.

The attack on a military police outpost near a gold mine in Inata came two days after another attack in which seven police were killed in the area near Niger and Mali.

E.M