News making the rounds online have it that at least six people have been killed after around 30 gunmen stormed a church and opened fire.
It was gathered that attackers burst into the Catholic church in Burkina Faso as Mass was being celebrated.
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According to the BBC, the town’s mayor, Ousmane Zongo, said that there was ‘panic’ as other places had been set on fire and looted.
Jihadist violence has flared in Burkina Faso since 2016, and this is the third attack on a church in five weeks.
“There is an atmosphere of panic in the town. People are holed up in their homes, nothing is going on. The shops and stores are closed. It’s practically a ghost town,” he said.
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The attack took place in the small northern town of Silgadji near Djibo, the capital of Soum province, and two others were initially reported missing.
Last month, attackers targeted a Protestant church in the town of Silgadji, killing at least six people
And earlier in April, four people died when a Catholic church was attacked in a nearby village, the bishop of Dori in northern Burkina Faso told Vatican news agency Fides.
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