ACI Prensa Staff, 19 October, 2024 / 8:00 pm (ACI Africa).
More than 150 people, including many Christians, have been massacred by Islamic terrorists in Burkina Faso, local sources told the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
On Oct. 6, an Islamic terrorist attack took place in the town of Manni in the African country’s eastern region. For several months, the insurgents have increased their brutality and their determination to spread terror, which has allowed them to control about half of the territory, ACN reported.
Despite the massacre, which local Christians describe as “beyond horrible,” the community of believers said without hesitation that “even if the terrorists burned everything, they didn’t burn our faith!”
Local sources told ACN that the terrorists first cut off all telephone communications before attacking the market, where many people had gathered after attending Sunday Mass. They then fired indiscriminately, looted shops, and set fire to several buildings, burning some victims alive.
The next day, the terrorists returned to attack medical staff and kill the wounded who were being treated. Then, on Oct. 8, they returned to the village again, this time killing all the men they could find.
