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Reuters
Reuters
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Death toll from attack on Burkina security post soars to 53

At least 53 people, including 49 military police officers and four civilians, were killed in an attack on a gendarmerie post in northern Burkina Faso this weekend, the government said on Wednesday, raising its earlier death toll of 32.

(Reporting by Thiam Ndiaga; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Aaron Ross)

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