Nine people were killed in northern Burkina Faso late Sunday, in the latest attack in a region struggling with a jihadist revolt, a security official said.
"Armed individuals carried out an attack on the village of Zoura, killing nine people, all of them civilians," the source said on Monday.
A resident in the nearby town of Kongoussi said the assailants "arrived in the village before the start of curfew (at 6:30 pm) and opened fire shortly afterwards.
They also ransacked a shop and made off with cattle."
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