A school director and a villager
in a Burkina Faso province on the border with Mali were killed Friday in a
suspected attack by jihadists, security and local officials said.
They were gunned down by two
armed men who “then returned to Mali on a motorcycle”, said Mohammed Dah, high
commissioner for Soum province.
A security source told AFP the
perpetrators “without doubt were jihadists” who have been rampant since 2015 in
the Sahel region that borders Mali and Niger.
The killings took place
four days after attacks on public buildings in Soum by the Ansarul Islam jihadist
group. One woman was wounded.
Ansarul Islam claimed an attack in December on an army squad near
the Malian border in which 12 soldiers were killed, the deadliest-ever assault
on the military.
Teachers have previously been threatened by jihadists in Soum. At
the end of January, armed men burst into two schools near the town of Djibo and
demanded staff stop teaching French and use Arabic instead.
Ansarul Islam is led by Burkinabe Malam Ibrahim Dicko, a radical
preacher who wants to create an Islamist “kingdom” in the region, experts say.
Long spared the Islamist violence affecting several nations in the
region, notably Mali and Niger, Burkina Faso has been hit by attacks and
kidnappings since April 2015.
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