Suspected jihadists ambushed a military convoy carrying more than 1,000 civilians in Burkina Faso last week, leading to civilian deaths and injuries, the regional governor said in a statement published on Wednesday, without providing a death toll, Paralel.Az reports citing Reuters.

The ambush took place on Aug. 9 in the village of Tawori in the east of the Sahel country, Governor Ram Joseph Kafando said in the statement, after visiting the wounded in hospital on Tuesday.

He did not say how many people had been injured, or whether any soldiers had been among the casualties.

Kafando praised the medical staff of the hospital where the injured had been taken as "doing a titanic job."