TORONTO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Six Canadian citizens killed
when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital city of Burkina Faso
on Friday were in the country to do humanitarian work, the CBC
News reported on Sunday.
The six people included a family of four from the community
of Beauport, Quebec who were involved with a religious
congregation and in Africa to help build a school, the report
said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed on Saturday
that six citizens were among those killed in the attack, but did
not identify them. But the Quebec government confirmed the six
people killed were from the French-speaking Canadian province.
Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the
capital Ouagadougou on Saturday, a day after al Qaeda fighters
seized it in an assault that killed at least 28 people from at
least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist
militancy in West Africa.
For CBC report see: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/burkina-faso-quebecers-killed-1.3407614
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