The government said jihadis began shooting people and burning down homes and a village market.
A jihadi attack in Burkina Faso's Solhan village has left at least 132 dead and countless wounded, officials said Monday. The assault was the deadliest the country has seen in years and caused almost 800 people to flee to the nearby town of Sebba, the Associated Press reported.
The Burkina Faso army has failed to squash jihadi attacks for five years. Héni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project, said that Sahel analysts believe the assault was executed by the Al-Qaeda-linked group JNIM, the most dominant faction in the province.A man reads the L'Observateur Paalga newspaper in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, on June 7.
"The militarization of the war against terrorism has created more insecurity than benefits, and both sides, jihadis and pro-state militias are targeting civilians," said Tanguy Quidelleur, a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of social sciences and politics who has researched self-defense groups in the Sahel.
"I think there are attacks again because there are new people recruited by the group [and]...not everyone who laid down his gun returned to the community," a former jihadi who left the group in October told the AP.
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