Gunmen kill 24 in attack near church in Burkina Faso
Source: AP
By SAM MEDNICK and ARSENE KABORE
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) Gunmen killed 24 civilians, including a church pastor, and kidnapped three others on Sunday in Burkina Faso, an official said. It was the latest attack against a religious leader in the increasingly unstable West African nation.
The mayor of Boundore commune, Sihanri Osangola Brigadie, said the attack occurred in the town of Pansi in Yagha province. The roughly 20 attackers separated men from women close to a Protestant church. At least 18 other people were injured.
It hurt me when I saw the people, Brigadie said after visiting some of the victims in the hospital in Dori town, 180 kilometers (110 miles) from the attack. The gunmen looted oil and rice from shops and forced the three youth they kidnapped to help transport it on their motorbikes, he said.
Both Christians and Muslims were killed before the church was set on fire, said a government security official in Dori who spoke on condition of anonymity because they werent authorized to speak to the media.
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Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)And still only one comment. I think that says it all how weve become accustomed to mob violence.
Just a few months ago, this nearly-identical headline was about another church massacrein El Paso, Texas.
We humans have made a mistake, weve fuc*ed up creating civilization. Were no different than the apes in the first five minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Sometimes I despair for this world of ours. May the victims rest in peace.