A Military led convoy supplying towns in the Northern side of Burkina Faso left at least 35 civilians dead and 37 wounded after an IED blast.
In a report by the Sahel region Governor, the incident occurred on a road between the Bourzanga to Djiboin the jihadist-hit north. Jihadist groups have been known to stage similar attacks on various places before.
The blast destroyed transport vehicles which had innocent civilians, trucks with drivers transporting supplies, buses with students reporting to school and traders going to restock their goods in the Ougadougou.
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Burkina Faso has in the past seven years been fighting the ongoing war between the Burkina Faso Government and the Islamic rebels that has claimed a lot of innocent lives and left others homeless. Earlier this year, 10 civilians were killed in an attacked alleged to be by the Jihadists in the village of Namssiguian in Bam Province.
The Military overthrew the ruling government blaming it for the persistence of the Islamic insurgency.
Not so long ago, in August, about 15 soldiers were pronounced dead in the same Northern region after a double IED blast.
Officials and leaders suspect most of the attacks in Burkina Faso to have been by the Jihadists or linked to the Al-Qaeda.