Around 30 killed in Burkina Faso attack

OUAGADOUGOU: Gunmen killed around 30 people at a livestock market in the eastern Burkina Faso town of Kompienbiga, local residents said Sunday, in an attack blamed by a security source on jihadists. The assailants "burst into the market riding motorbikes and started shooting, especially at people who were trying to flee", one resident said, estimating the death toll at around 30 from the attack on Saturday. A second resident said: "It's hard to say how many people were killed. There were bodies in the market, and others in the bush." But he added: "More than 30 bodies were collected" after the attack. He said his brother was at the market at the time and he had had "no news" from him since.