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6 Killed as Gunmen Attack Church in Burkina Faso During Sunday Mass - Report
6 Killed as Gunmen Attack Church in Burkina Faso During Sunday Mass - Report
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Six people, including a priest, were killed on Sunday, in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, northern Burkina Faso, AFP reported. 12.05.2019, Sputnik International
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6 Killed as Gunmen Attack Church in Burkina Faso During Sunday Mass - Report
14:58 GMT 12.05.2019 (Updated: 16:20 GMT 12.05.2019) Six people, including a priest, were killed on Sunday, in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, northern Burkina Faso, AFP reported.
"Around 9 a.m., during a mass, armed individuals burst into the Catholic Church. They started firing as the churchgoers tried to flee," Dablo Mayor Ousmane Zongo told AFP.
A security source told the agency that the attack was carried out by a "group of armed men estimated [to number] between twenty and thirty."
In late April, several armed people attacked a Protestant church in Silgdji in the north of the country, killing five churchgoers and the pastor. The April attack was the first attack on a church since 2015.
The attacks comes as the authorities of Burkina Faso have launched a massive anti-terrorist operation in the eastern and central-eastern regions of the country.
