Gunmen killed six people including a priest outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso on Sunday, a local official said, the second attack on Christians in two weeks in a nation increasingly overrun by jihadists. Congregants were leaving church around 9 a.m. local time when about 20 men encircled them and shot six dead, according to local sources. The attackers then burned the church, looted a pharmacy and some others stores and left, Dablo Mayor Boucary Zongo told Reuters. Two French soldiers were killed in an operation to rescue four people taken hostage in Burkina Faso last week, France said. Then in late April, unidentified gunmen killed a pastor and five congregants at a Protestant church, also in the north, suggesting the violence was taking a religious turn.

Source: CBC News May 12, 2019 16:41 UTC