Nigeria, May 16 -- An Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has claimed responsibility for the death of 200 soldiers in Burkina Faso.

SITE Intelligence Group, a US-based organisation, confirmed on Thursday that the group had taken responsibility for an attack on soldiers at a military post in Burkina Faso's northern town of Djibo.

SITE is a private intelligence organisation known for monitoring and analysing the online activities of extremist groups, including jihadist and far-right organisations.

According to the organisation, the JNIM released an informal statement stating that it killed 200 soldiers in the attack, a day after it claimed responsibility for the 60 dead soldiers.

"The operat...