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Solhan and Tadaryat massacres

Solhan massacre
Part of the Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
LocationSolhan, Yagha Province, Burkina Faso
Coordinates13°22′35″N 00°27′28″E / 13.37639°N 0.45778°E / 13.37639; 0.45778
Date4–5 June 2021
Deaths160
Injured40
Perpetrator JNIM (per Burkina Faso and ISIS, denied by JNIM)
  • Mujahid al-Qaida
AccusedMano Tidjani
Woba Dikoure

On 4 and 5 June 2021, jihadists from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) attacked the village of Solhan, Yagha Province, Burkina Faso. At least 160 people were killed in the massacres, making it the deadliest attacks up to that point in the jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso since the start of the war in 2015.[1]

  1. ^ "Une centaine de morts dans une attaque au Burkina Faso" (in French). 2021-06-05. Retrieved 2025-01-21.

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