OUAGADOUGOU, Africa.-Six people died today in an attack of armed men against a church during the mass schedule in northern Burkina Faso, a region usually hit by jihadi terrorism, confirmed to EFE official sources. The incident occurred on Sunday morning in the area of the locality Dablo (near the Sahel region), according to Efe Jean Paul Badoum, spokesman of the Ministry of Security of the country. According to local media, assailants also burned the enclosure. This is the first attack of this type against a Catholic church since the beginning of the jihadi surge in Burkina Faso in 2015 and the second against a Christian temple within just two weeks. On May 28 a Protestant church of the locality of Silgadji (also in the north) became in turn the first place of its type to be white of the terrorism. The rise of terrorism in Burkina Faso began in April 2015, when members of a group affiliated with Al Qaeda kidnapped a Romanian security guard in a Tambao manganese mine in the north of the country, and is still missing. Since then, the number of attacks, which are attributed to the local group, Ansarul Islam; The jihadi coalition of the Sahel, the support group on Islam and Muslims (GSIM), and the Islamic State in the Great Sahara (EIGS), has been increasing exponentially.
The region most affected by insecurity is that of the Sahel, located in the north and sharing the border with Mali and Niger, where attacks and kidnappings of different jihadi groups occur. However, the situation in the eastern part of the country has also been degraded since the summer of 2018. Burkina Faso is one of the five countries that comprise the Sahel G5, along with Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad, a group that fights jihadi terrorism in the region.
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