...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
as the victims were leaving a church service, eyewitnesses have said. Several people have reportedly been killed, including the protestant pastor.
An attack on a church in Burkina Faso killed five people on Sunday, local media reported. At least two other people were missing, according to a security source cited by the AFP news agency.
The pastor of the church was also killed in the raid, which targeted the Protestant congregation in the small northern town of Silgadji, some 200 kilometers (124 miles) away from the capital Ouagadougou.
"The attackers were on cycle of violence
s," a witness told AFP. "They had gun sex before aiming at the members of the congregation."The attack happened in early afternoon, "just as the faithful were leaving the church at the end of the service," the witness added.
Over one half of Burkina Faso residents are Moslem, but Christians, most of them Catholics, make up some 30 percent of the population. The West African state has been struggling with jihadist violence since 2015.
Jihadist groups regularly target Christian and moderate Moslem holy mans in the north of the country. Several hundred people have bit the dust in the violence. A Catholic priest was killed in February in a raid attributed to jihadist groups, and a group of button men kidnapped another priest in the north in March.