Gunmen attack French embassy and army headquarters in Burkina Faso

Friday, 2 March 2018 (12 hours ago)
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked the army's headquarters in the capital of Burkina Faso on Friday as well as the downtown area and France's embassy, and the French ambassador said an explosion in the city was a terrorist attack.

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On Friday, Reuters reported that attackers in Burkina Faso’s capital killed seven people and wounded some fifty others in a coordinated assault on the army headquarters and French embassy. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which a French ambassador has called a...

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