The Burkina Faso government announced on Friday night that unknown gunmen had attacked a market in the eastern village of Namoungou killing 20.
A homemade bomb killed three paramilitary gendarmes and wounded three more Sunday in northwest Burkina Faso, security sources said.
At least 35 civilians, mostly women, and seven soldiers were killed in one of the deadliest assaults in the last five years by armed fighters in northern Burkina Faso.
At Least 14 people have been killed in an attack on a Protestant church in eastern Burkina Faso on Sunday morning.
Sixteen people died and two were seriously injured in an attack on a mosque in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, security sources said on Saturday.
A terrorist attack on a village in the troubled north of Burkina Faso has left at least 17 civilians dead.