Thirty-nine killed in militant attack on Burkina Faso village - government

Thirty-nine people were killed in northern Burkina Faso on Saturday, in what the government called a terrorist attack on a village in Soum province.

That comes less than a week after armed militants killed 36 civilians, part of a surge in violence in the West African country that has killed hundreds, forced nearly a million from their homes and made much of the north ungovernable over the past two years.