The insurgents activities in Burkina Faso is gradually drifting to Ghana as six bodies have been identified by officials in a suspected jihadist attack in southern Burkina Faso near border with Ghana.
Four out of the six persons were said be teachers who were killed.
According to Channelstv, , quoting security officials and local sources said on Monday shooters “started shooting at a group” in the town of Bittou leading to the death of the six civilians.
Burkina Faso military have been conveyed in Ouagadougou since September 30, 2022.
Six civilians, four of them teachers, were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in southern Burkina Faso near the border with Ghana, security officials and local sources said on Monday.
A security source said, that the attackers had escaped to the nearby woodland of Nouhao sought after by security powers.
A regional federation of education unions said four teachers at the local high school, including the head teacher, were among the six fatalities.
Burkina Faso, a West African nation has been struggling with a jihadist insurgency which is presently in its eighth year.
Reports indicates that several individuals made up of civilians, police and security volunteers have kicked the bucket with other escaped their homes.
Swathes of the nation are presently not under government control and disturbance in the military over the emergency has set off two upsets in 2022.
The 10-year-old jihadist campaign in the Sahel has lighted fears of an advance towards vulnerable nations on the coast of the Bay of Guinea — Ghana, Togo, Benin and Ivory Coast.
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Bittou, located in Burkina’s Middle East region, is an important commercial center point straddling a vital highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the border with Ghana and Togo.