Burkina Faso: ambush in Canadian company convoy, 37 dead

2019-11-06T21:30:38.065Z

The death toll of an ambush in Burkina Faso against a convoy of five buses escorted by the military on which local employees of the Canadian mining company Semafo were traveling was of 37 dead and 60 injured. This was announced by a statement released by the governor of the Eastern region, Colonel Saidou Sanou. The ambush occurred about 40 kilometers from the Boungou mine. At first the Semafo, which has its headquarters in Montreal, had spoken of "dead and wounded" due to the attack that, according to the colonel, was "carried out in the morning" by "unidentified armed individuals".