Burkina: seven hostages released | APAnews

Burkina: seven hostages released | APAnews
Burkina: seven hostages released | APAnews

Operations are underway to free the country from armed terrorist groups.

Seven Burkinabè held by terrorist groups or reported missing in Burkina Faso have regained their freedom.

The information revealed by the online media, Faso7, was confirmed to APA by several security sources on November 6, 2024.

Among the released hostages are two lawyers who went missing in mid-October 2024 on the Dédougou-Bobo Dioulasso axis.

« The President of the Bar Association and the Council of the Bar Association have the immense joy of announcing the release of Masters Christian Patrick Léonard Kaboré and Gontran Somé Walé, previously kidnapped on October 10, 2024 on the Dédougou-Bobo-Dioulasso axis, after twenty -six days of captivity “, we read in a press release.

« Following the usual formalities and appropriate support in such circumstances “, they are back in Ouagadougou “ safe and sound » and were reunited with their families on November 5, 2024.

The Burkinabè Bar welcomed the President of Faso and the elements of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) “ for having invested daily and tirelessly in order to find the colleagues and obtain their unexpected release, then their return to their families, safe and sound ».

Five members of the National Armed Forces, who were taken prisoner by armed groups in the Eastern region, are also free.

« They took advantage of the disorganization of terrorist groups caused by the operations of the armed forces to escape », informed the concordant sources.

Several military operations are underway to reconquer areas in which armed terrorist groups still operate.

DS/ac/APA

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