On 4 and 5 June 2021, a massacres happened in the Solhan and Tadaryat villages in Yagha Province of Burkina Faso. The attacks left at least 160 people dead.
In the evening of 4 June 2021, 13 civilians and a soldier were killed in an attack in the village of Tadaryat.[1] The attackers also raided the community's motorbikes and cattle.[2][3]
Hours later in the early morning of 5 June 2021, insurgents attacked Solhan village in Yagha, killing at least 138 civilians, including seven children, and wounding 40 others.[4][5]
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