10 militants killed in Burkina Faso: army

Ten “terrorists” died in an offensive against a militant base in the west of Burkina Faso on Thursday, according to the army’s chief of staff.

The West African country is battling a revolt, which has also exacerbated deadly inter-ethnic tensions.

Since 2015, nearly 900 people have died and 840,000 have fled their homes. A unit of soldiers and gendarme carried out the offensive in the rural locality of Worou in Sourou province, said the statement, which was not independently verifiable.

“This anti-militant operation allowed us to neutralise 10 terrorists and to recover weapons and motorcycles,” it said, adding that one gendarme was injured.