Several soldiers killed in northern Burkina Faso ambush

At least eight other soldiers wounded in the attack near the country’s border with Mali, government says.

Twelve Burkina Faso soldiers were killed and eight wounded in an ambush by suspected rebels near the West African country’s border with Mali, the government said. Communications Minister Ousseni Tamboura “strongly condemned the barbaric attack” on Sunday near the village of Dounkoun in Toeni commune in Sourou province, the latest in a series both near the borders with Mali and Niger. “Members of the ground forces and the rapid intervention force GARSI were ambushed” in the northwest Boucle du Mouhoun region, Tamboura said in a statement on Monday. “The provisional toll indicates 12 soldiers fallen and eight wounded.”