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Provisional death toll was 34 volunteers and six soldiers in an attack carried out by unidentified men, authorities say.
Unidentified assailants have killed 40 people and wounded 33 others in an attack on the army and volunteer defence forces in northern Burkina Faso, the government said in a statement.
A detachment of six soldiers and 34 civilian volunteers “was the target of an attack by unidentified armed men on Saturday … at about 4pm,” near Aorema village, the Ouahigouya governorate said in a statement on Sunday.
The region is not far from the border with Mali, an area overrun by…
