Eleven Burkina Faso soldiers were killed yesterday when jihadist fighters attacked an army base in the north close to the west African country's border with Mali, a local official said.
"We lost 11 of our men in the attack this morning in Nassoumbou ... the biggest jihadist attack ever perpetrated" against the army, the high commissioner of Soum province, Mohamed Dah, said.
"Two more men were missing after around 40 jihadists riding pick-up trucks and motorbikes attacked the base some 30km from Burkina-Mali border".
