… As 2 docked for alleged threat to kill***

Security Minister Maxime Kone, on Monday, said that within three days two terrorist attacks left 27 people dead in Burkina Faso.

Kone said one civilian and 19 gendarmes were killed in an attack on a gendarmerie post in the northern province of Soum on Sunday.

According to a military spokesperson, around 60 gendarmes have been missing since the attack in the village of Inata.

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Two days earlier, seven police officers died in another attack on a rural road in Soum, Kone said.

The former French colony with its 21 million inhabitants is located in the Sahel, an area stretching south of the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.

Armed groups are active there, some of which have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State or al-Qaeda.

Burkina Faso had long been spared attacks, but their number has been on the rise significantly since 2015.

According to the United Nations, more than 1.2 million people are now refugees in their own country.

Many militias operate across the borders into Mali and other states.

Attacks on military and police posts have increased in recent weeks, especially near the border with neighbouring Mali.

At the end of October, unknown extremists killed almost two dozen people in an attack on a police station in the region.

In the meantime, Messrs Sulaiman Adisa, 38 and Yusuf Dauda, 18, were on Monday arraigned in a Badagry Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for an alleged threat to kill one Sulaiman Aliu.

The defendants, whose addresses were unknown, are facing a two-count charge of threat to life and a breach of the peace.

The Prosecutor, ASP Ikem Uko, told the court that the defendants committed the offences at about 10:38 a.m on Nov. 6 at Ajangbadi area of the state.

Uko said that the defendants allegedly threatened to kill the complainant “with just two bullets of the gun”.

He said that the defendants also conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace by threatening to kill the complainant.

He said that the defendants were apprehended immediately and handed over to the police.

The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Sections 246 and 168 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

However, the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge against them.

The Magistrate, Mr Patrick Adekomaiya, granted them bail in the sum of N300,000 each with two sureties in like sum.

Adekomaiya said the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction with evidence of tax payments to the Lagos State Government.

He thereafter adjourned the case to Nov. 22 for mention.