The attack which occurred in Kodyel village in the Komandjari province, had some villagers being attacked as they tried to escape from their village.
According to a government official, LABIDI OUOBA, who said Rebel fighters surrounded the village and went house to house setting fire to them and killing people, prayed for peace in the country.
A resident, who fled the attack said about hundred fighters entered the town on motorcycles and pick-up trucks adding that four of his brother’s children were killed.
The attack comes exactly one week after two Spanish journalists and an Irish conservationist were killed and a Burkinabe soldier went missing when their anti-poaching patrol was ambushed by rebels in the same region.
