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3 Burkina Faso police officers killed in unknown gunmen attack

Xinhua, June 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Unidentified gunmen killed three Burkina Faso officers in an attack on Tuesday night against a police station in a locality close to the border with Mali, a security source on Wednesday said in the capital Ouagadougou.

According to the source, the assailants launched the attack in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday against Intangom police station in the Sahel region, close to the border of Burkina Faso with Mali.

For months, Burkina Faso has been experiencing a wave of terrorist attacks, mostly in the northern region of the country.

In mid-May, two security and defense forces officers were left injured as unknown gunmen attacked police position at Koutougou, close to borders with Niger and Mali.

Lately, the Commissioner of police Lazare Tarpaga disclosed his intention to investigate terrorist track to throw light on that attack, though no group of individual claimed responsibility.

In mid-January, a jihadist attack against luxury hotel in the capital Ouagadougou claimed the lives of 30 persons in the country. Enditem