At least 20 killed in attack in northern Burkina Faso — A Burkina Faso’s gendarme stands guard in Tambao, 350 kilometers northeast of the capital, Ouagadougou on April 5, 2015. (AHMED OUOBA/AFP via Getty Images)

At least 20 people, including 19 gendarmes, were killed on Sunday in a terrorist attack against the detachment of the Inata gendarmerie, in Soum province in the Sahel region, near the border with Mali, Security Minister Maxim Kone announced on the national radio of Burkina Faso.

“Operations are underway. The populations of the area are invited to be vigilant and to cooperate fully with the army,” said Kone in a press release.

It is a provisional toll and the attack was not claimed as of 8 pm Sunday.

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