DAKAR—Attackers raided the Karma industrial gold mine in northern Burkina Faso in the early hours of Thursday morning, killing one soldier and one civilian, the mine’s owner said.
Three or four soldiers were also wounded in the assault, which took place at around 4:30 a.m. (0430 GMT), said an official who answered the phone at Nere Mining, which owns Karma. The call was cut off before he could give his name.
He said it was not immediately clear who was responsible. Radical Islamic terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS have been waging an insurgency in northern Burkina Faso for nearly a decade and routinely carry out attacks….