Around ten armed persons carried out in the morning a terrorist attack in the village of Sikire, said a security source to AFP, which says that ten people have been killed and two seriously injured.

A myndighetskälla in the nearby town of Arbinda announces via telephone that the ”perpetrators armed with kalasjnikovgevär drove through the village several times and opened fire on the residents”.

Villages and towns in Burkina Faso, the recurrent victims of jihadi violence that have characterized the Sahel region for several years.