Burkina Faso: Gunmen attack police post

Childrens look through holes of a wall at the MINUSMA camp on June 3, 2015 in Goundam, in the Timbuktu region. Picture: Philippe Desmazes

Childrens look through holes of a wall at the MINUSMA camp on June 3, 2015 in Goundam, in the Timbuktu region. Picture: Philippe Desmazes

Published Aug 25, 2015

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Ouagadougou - Unidentified gunmen attacked a police post in northern Burkina Faso, a police statement said on Monday, underscoring the dangers of growing violence in Mali for neighbouring countries.

The statement said that two police officers were injured in the attack, one of them seriously.

The incident took place late on Sunday in the province of Oudalan close to the Malian border.

Islamist militants, which seized Mali's desert north in 2012, were scattered but not defeated by a French military operation a year later.

The militants continue to launch attacks in Mali's north and are thought to be linked to attacks further south in recent months, including near the Mauritanian and Ivorian borders.

Reuters

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