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Priest Among 6 Killed in Burkina Faso Church Attack


Gunmen have killed 6 people including a priest as Mass was being celebrated in a church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, officials said.

They were 20 to 30. They also burned down the church.

The town’s mayor, Ousmane Zongo, described panic in the town as other buildings were burnt and a health centre looted.

Jihadist violence has flared in Burkina Faso since 2016, and this is the third attack on a church in five weeks.

Fighters affiliated to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group as well as the local Ansarul Islam have been active in the region.

“Armed individuals burst into the Catholic church… They started firing as the congregation tried to flee,” the mayor of Dablo, Mr Zongo told the AFP news agency.

“There is an atmosphere of panic in the town. People are holed up in their homes, nothing is going on. The shops and stores are closed. It’s practically a ghost town,” he said.

Security sources told AFP that reinforcements were being sent from Barsalogho, some 45km (30 miles) to the south.

Last month, attackers targeted a Protestant church in the town of Silgadji, killing at least six people

And earlier in April, four people died when a Catholic church was attacked in a nearby village, the bishop of Dori in northern Burkina Faso told Vatican news agency Fides.

[News taken from BBC]

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6 Responses

  1. Gunmen have killed 6 people including a priest as Mass was being celebrated in a church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, officials said.
    They were 20 to 30. They also burned down the church.

  2. This will be happening in European churches soon if we continue to stand around slack jawed and let the liberal pc agenda run amok. Christians are fair game in pc land. It’s about time this irrational fear of appearing racist and offending some avocado eating young fool with silly hair has got to stop

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