Nine killed in ambush in northern Ghana, local official says

Nine people were killed and several injured in an ambush by unknown assailants in northern Ghana on Thursday, said Zubeiru Abdulai, head of the local district of Pusiga.

The attack took place near the border with Burkina Faso, where Islamist militants are waging an insurgency.

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