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Unidentified gunmen killed three police officers in northern Burkina Faso near the Malian border, a regional official said on Wednesday.
A high-ranking official from Oudalam province said: “Three police officers were killed. The attackers killed them in the police station in Intamgom,” a village about 5km from the border.
“There were three or four attackers. They headed back to Mali afterwards. We aren’t sure yet, but it looks like a terrorist attack given the modus operandi,” he said.
A government source confirmed the attack and the toll.
The assault was the second to hit a police station near Mali in less than a fortnight.
Two officers were injured on May 17 when gunmen raided a police station in Koutoukou in the neighbouring province of Soum.
Until this year Burkina Faso had avoided the attacks and hostage-taking by jihadist groups which had wracked other Sahel countries since 2008.
