Burkina Faso police kill 18 terrorists
Burkina Faso authorities said 18 terrorists were
killed when they attempted to attack a police base northern the country,
Business Standard reported on Thursday.
"The attackers were repulsed thanks to a prompt
response," police said in a statement after the assault in Arbinda, Soum
Province.
One police officer was killed and seven officers
were injured, the statement added.
Weapons, motorcycles and GPS equipment belonging to
the terrorists were recovered from the scene.
It comes after the Burkina Faso army said it had
killed 32 "terrorists" last week in two operations in the north part
of the impoverished and politically fragile Sahel country.
The country's badly equipped, poorly trained and
underfunded security forces have been unable to stem terrorist violence, which
has intensified throughout 2019 to become almost daily.
