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Scores killed in Burkina Faso by attackers ‘in army uniforms’, prosecutor says

Burkina Faso soldiers patrol at the entrance of the Goudebo refugee camp for Malian refugees in Dori on February 3, 2020. © Olympia de Maismont, AFP

Sixty people were killed in Burkina Faso by attackers wearing military uniforms, a prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest attack in the insurgency-hit country.

"About 60 people were killed by people wearing the uniforms of our national armed forces" on Thursday in the village of Karma, in northern Yatenga province, Ouahigouya High Court prosecutor Lamine Kabore told AFP in a statement, citing the gendarmerie.

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