Dédougou, 04 January, 2023 / 9:33 pm (ACI Africa).
Fr. Jacques Yaro Zerbo, a Malian-born Catholic Priest who has been serving in Burkina Faso’s Dédougou Diocese, has been murdered, the Local Ordinary of the Burkinabe Diocese has confirmed in a statement.
In the statement issued Tuesday, January 3, Bishop Prosper Bonaventure Ky announces with “deep sorrow” the death of Fr. Zerbo, adding that the late Catholic Priest “was killed on Monday, January 2, 2023, by unidentified armed men” in Soro, Northwestern Burkina Faso.
The killers of the Catholic Priest also took his vehicle, multiple sources in the West African nation have reported.
The Priest was captured on January 3 by the armed individuals who executed him, a local security official has been quoted as saying, and added that terrorist attacks are very frequent in the area where Fr. Zerbo was murdered.
Born in December 1956 in Kolongo, Mali, the late Fr. Zerbo was ordained a Priest in July 1986 for Dédougou Diocese. He founded a youth re-education center in the Tougan region, which he later had to relocate to Moundasso (Dédougou) because of terrorist attacks.