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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso: About 20 civilians were killed in a night attack on a gold mine in Burkina Faso’s restive north, local sources said on Saturday (Sunday in Manila). “Dozens of armed men travelling on motorcycles attacked the gold mine in Kougdiguin,” on the night of Thursday to Friday in Namentenga province, a local said. Another local source put the death toll at 22, adding that “women and children” figured among the victims. On March 12, 11 people were killed in an attack on an informal gold mine in northern Burkina Faso. This came two days after a similar attack on another gold mine near the Niger border that claimed some 10 lives. Nearly 80 people have been killed in the last three weeks in attacks blamed on jihadists.
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