At least 14 people died in an armed attack against a church in Burkina Faso

On Sunday at least 14 people died in Hantoukoura, in Burkina Faso, in an armed attack against a Protestant church, during mass. AFP he writes that after the attack the attackers escaped on a scooter: at the moment their identity is not known, nor is the motive for the attack. In recent months in the country there had been several armed attacks by jihadist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State and coming from neighboring Mali, which had both Christian and Muslim targets, the latter accused of not being sufficiently radicalized . AFP he writes that since 2015 more than 700 people have been killed in jihadist attacks in the country.