A lot more than 130 killed in Burkina Faso attack
Armed men possess killed over 132 people in an attack in a village on northern Burkina Faso, the country's worst attack recently, the federal government says.
Homes and the local market were burned during the overnight raid on Solhan.
Zero group has said it had been behind the violence, but Islamist episodes are increasingly common found in the united states, especially in border areas.
The UN chief said he was "outraged" by the incident.
António Guterres "strongly condemns the heinous strike and underscores the urgent dependence on the international network to redouble support to member claims in the fight violent extremism and its own unacceptable man toll," his spokesperson said.
The Burkinabe President Roch Kabore declared three times of national mourning saying, in a tweet, that "we should stand united against the forces of evil".
The security forces are currently looking for the perpetrators, he added.
In another attack on Friday night, 14 persons were reported to have already been killed in the village of Tadaryat, about 150km (93 miles) to the north of Solhan.
Last month, 30 persons died within an attack on the east of Burkina Faso.
The united states is facing a deepening security crisis, like a lot of its neighbours, as armed groups perform raids and kidnappings across a lot of the region.
In May, the Burkinabe army launched a large-scale procedure in response to a resurgence of militant attacks. Not surprisingly, the security forces will be struggling to prevent the violence which has forced greater than a million persons from their homes in the last two years.
Africa's semi-arid Sahel place has been reach by an insurgency since militants captured large elements of northern Mali in 2012 and 2013.
French forces have been helping troops from Mali, Chad, Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso to struggle the militants.
But this week France halted cooperation with Mali over the latest coup there.
