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Burkina Faso massacre

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Video of trench massacre filmed in Burkina Faso, not Nigeria

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Nigerian government critic Mahdi Shehu shared a video of a massacre in Burkina Faso in 2024 .

Shehu claimed 150 people were shot to death in Nigeria ’s north-west Sokoto state.

However, the footage was filmed outside a rural town in the small town of Barsalogho in the northern part of the country.

Residents in Barsalogho , forced by the Burkinabè army , were digging defensive trenches on August 24, 2024 .

JNIM claimed it only attacked soldiers and militia members excavating trenches and killed nearly 300 , describing all the victims as fighters, not civilians.

The UN said “ around 200 ” people were killed, but the collective of residents said the death toll was nearly 400 .

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