At lease 10 die in Burkina Faso gold mine attack

Mar 13, 2022

Ouagadougou [Burkina Faso], March 13 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 10 people were killed on Saturday in an attack that targeted a gold mine in Burkina's Sahel region, local media reported on Sunday.
Around 20 unidentified armed individuals attacked the artisanal gold mining site of Baliata, in the Sahel region, killing at least 10 miners and injuring several others, reports said.
Fourteen people were killed Thursday in a similar raid on a gold mining site in the region's Seytenga.
Security in Burkina Faso has worsened since 2015, with terrorist attacks killing more than 1,000 people and displacing over one million others in the west African nation. (ANI/Xinhua)

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