Burkina: More than a hundred terrorists neutralized, drugs and important logistics seized
The Combatant Forces neutralized more than a hundred terrorists on several fronts, and seized a large quantity of drugs as well as significant logistics, the AIB learned on Friday from secure sources.
The intelligence service was able to locate on Friday September 1, 2023, around sixty terrorists, vacationing on the edge of a small pond in the Oursi area. They were on three pickup trucks and on motorcycles.
The airstrikes that followed completely destroyed these means of movement and killed dozens of attackers.
In the Sahel region, terrorists who raged on the Gorom-Gorom-Markoye axis were tracked to their base in Gagara, in the Salmossi area.
Numbering about forty, they were successfully struck in their lair by aerial vectors.
According to AIB sources, the Volunteers for Defense and Homeland (VDP) have been carrying out a vast operation since August 7, 2023 in western Burkina, supported by the 7th Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR). ).
The mid-term report shows several bases destroyed in the provinces of Houet, Kénédougou and Cascades.
After several battles, the Fighting Forces got the upper hand over the criminals.
Our sources speak of at least 65 bodies of terrorists counted. On the friends side, we are talking about five injured and currently being taken care of.
Vehicles, weapons, ammunition, explosives, all kinds of military uniforms, food, livestock, means of transmission and various materials were recovered.
The Fighting Forces also seized a large quantity of drugs which they destroyed.
Source: Burkina Information Agency