3 killed in attack on church in Burkina Faso

(AFP) Three people were killed Sunday in a new attack on a Catholic church in the northern town of Toulfe in Burkina Faso.

Last week gunmen killed four Catholics in a religious procession, the day after a priest and five parishioners were murdered at mass in the western African country. Increasingly frequent and deadly attacks attributed to a number of jihadist groups, including the Ansarul Islam group, the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, have resulted in the deaths of nearly 400 people since 2015.