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At least 28 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in two separate gunmen attacks on Sunday and Monday in Burkina Faso, a regional governor and the army have revealed.
Unidentified armed men killed 15 civilians on Sunday in the province of Comoe in western Burkina Faso on the border with Cote d'Ivoire, the governor of the Cascades region, Colonel Jean Charles dit Yenapono Some, said.
The gunmen intercepted two minibuses in the village of Linguekoro in the province on Sunday evening, releasing only nine of the combined 24 passengers in the two vehicles. They then set the two buses on fire and abducted the 15 remaining passengers. On Monday, the bodies of the abducted passengers were found with bullet wounds near the village where they were taken, said the official in a statement.
The army also reported in a separate statement on Tuesday that 13 people – 10 gendarmes, two army auxiliaries and a civilian – were killed on Monday in a terrorist attack by unidentified armed men in the locality of Falangoutou in the Province of Seno.
None of these attacks have been claimed so far.
(With input from Xinhua)
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