Burkina Faso Attack: "At least 20 People Were Killed" In Ouagadougou Hotel

 Burkina Faso Attack: "At least 20 People Were Killed" In Ouagadougou Hotel

 

 

 
Gunmen in western Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, the taking of hostages were reportedly killed at least 20 people attacked a hotel used.

Witnesses said the bomb in a car bomb outside after a number of masked men broke into the hotel and take hostages. French Ambassador Gilles Thibault and the operation to free the hostages was under way that tweet. Witnesses said that the hotel was on fire in the part. He said hospital director Robert Sangaré died at least 20 people and wounded 15. Group that monitors al-Qaeda jihadist network Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and announced that he was behind the attack.

UN staff and used by Western countries - Witnesses said the gunmen entered at the beginning of a cafe near the hotel. An employee at the cafe, "many people" were killed there, he told AFP. Witnesses said that the international airport in the country, which is close to the four-star hotel, in a shooting between men and security forces, as well as sporadic exchanges of fire and reported hearing.

Burkinabe forces stationed outside a wonderful hotel

 

The latest developments

•     The US military, that has some 75 staff in Burkina Faso, said it was ready to help French troops at the hotel

•     France's ambassador to Burkina Faso, Gilles Thibault, says a curfew is in place until 06:00 local time

Group who is responsible?

 

Twenty people in Mali in November in an attack by al-Qaida and killed stationed

Jihadist network analysis, claimed control of the site collection, and the Islamic Maghreb and al-Qaeda was behind the attack. Especially, he said the monitoring group, and those found in the Sahara Desert in northern Mali official Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar and seasoned fighters loyal to the group who were involved stationed. Last month, the group announced that it had merged with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Belmokhtar has left the 0.1980 in the contract one-eyed commander who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, once a member of AQIM, but his leadership after the fall deadline. Belmokhtar was announced, 14 June Libya last year several times in a US air strike by the latest of the dead - according to Libyan officials - but has not been confirmed officially his death.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and al stationed had left 20 people dead in November in a hotel in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso was behind the attack. 

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Burkina Faso recently held a coup last year since the first presidential elections. It has ruled that the coup for 27 years, and a longtime leader Blaise Compaore, was overthrown. "We are still in the context of political weakness, so I think that the time of the attack meaning," said Cynthia Ohayon, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, the BBC from Ouagadougou. "The country has a long border with Mali and Niger, and we know that there are armed groups on the border, so maybe it was something we did."

It was about 10 vehicles on fire in the streets close to the hotel room 146.

The gunmen seized control of the fabulous five-story hotel in the business district in Ouagadougou, burning cars outside and shoot in the air to drive back the crowd before the arrival of the security forces, resulting in a heavy exchange of fire. The struggle for Mali read more A witness told The Associated Press that he saw four men attacked the hotel and neighboring Cappuccino Cafe at about 7:30 local time. Another witness said that when he reached the security forces, and turned around rather than face the attackers.

Each of the hotel and cafe popular with United Nations officials and foreigners. It is located in a busy area in the center of the capital, not far from the airport.

Security forces outside the hotel wonderful in Ouagadougou, where suspected Islamist militants were holding hostages

Said Robert Sangare, director of the university hospital center of Ouagadougou: "We have received about 15 wounded." He said there were people with gunshot wounds, and people who are injured due to a fall. That patients told him they saw about 20 bodies in the hotel.

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The French embassy said on its website that "a terrorist attack" is underway and urged people to avoid the area. He said France's ambassador to the country, the curfew has been put in place in Ouagadougou from 2300 GMT 0600. Gilles Thibault said on his Twitter account that the attack, which occurred in the former colony was going on for, and that the embassy has set up a crisis unit to its citizens. More than 3,500 French nationals living in the country located in West Africa, according to data from the State Department. It has been transferred Air France flight from Paris to Ouagadougou to neighboring Niger. The hotel is sometimes used by French troops with Barkhane process, force based in Chad, which was established to fight Islamic militants in this vast arid Sahel region and in Africa.

And he said, asking not to be named, a senior official in the National Gendarmerie "continues at this time. We are trying to know how many attackers are to improve our coordination. Taken hostage. Process may take several hours."

It is well known that this is the first time targeted the militants and Ouagadougou.

Woman rescued from the siege of a great hotel.

He was a senior member of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in December called for Muslims in many countries, including Burkina Faso, to Jihad. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, along with two other groups, claimed responsibility for the killing of 20 people and taking hostages in the capital of neighboring Mali in November.

The US Embassy in Ouagadougou tweeted: "We are closely following the center of the situation."

Burkina Faso, a Muslim country to a large extent, was in turmoil since the ouster of its president for a long time in a popular uprising in late 2014. In September, members of the presidential guard of the coup which only lasted about a week. Transitional government returned to power until elections ushered in Burkina Faso in November in new leaders.

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