Ten people have been reported dead after a bus hit a mine in eastern Burkina Faso.
This was disclosed by the regional governor, Colonel Hubert Yameogoon Monday.
Yameogoon, said the mini-bus hit a mine on a road near the village of Bougui on Sunday afternoon and the explosion killed 10 passengers.
According to AFP, a source said that an improvised explosive device caused the deaths of “around 10 civilians”, a toll corroborated by local sources in Fada N’Gourma.
“The victims are mainly women and children,” said a resident of the town whose cousin died in the explosion.
The event occured after two soldiers were killed on a road in northern Burkina Faso by an explosive device on Saturday, according to a security source.
Since 2015, the nation of West Africa has struggled with an insurgency that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of about two million people. The insurgency is being led by jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
