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French commandos rescued four foreign hostages including two French citizens from a militant group in Burkina Faso, France’s military said on Friday, adding that two of the elite soldiers were killed in the night-time operation.
French Special Forces carried out the raid under cover of dark over the night of Thursday-Friday, supported by US intelligence and troops from France’s Barkhane operation deployed in the Sahel region to counter Islamist militants.
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