By RFPosted on 24-11-2019Modified on 24-11-2019 at 19:42

The four missing persons Friday, November 22, were found safe and sound. It is from now on the anti-terrorist pole of the justice of Burkina Faso who takes care of the file.

The four missing persons were working for Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, to install infrastructure for Burkina Faso's Ministry of Digital Economy Development in the waterfall region in the west of the country. They were found Saturday, November 23, following an operation of the Burkinabe defense and security forces, and conducted in Ouagadougou.

The operation was done with the collaboration of the populations. Twenty-four hours after their disappearance, " the four Huawei workers were found safe and sound and returned to the capital, " said the Burkinabe Minister of Security. Three of these ex-hostages were received by the prime minister and some members of the government. The fourth, a Chinese, was handed over to the diplomatic representatives of his country.

Many questions to elucidate

" We can not yet talk about conditions of detention and their release because the hearings have not started, " said Ousseini Compaore. According to the Minister of Security, the ex-hostages themselves did not know where they were, and it is the investigation that will elucidate all these issues.

The Minister of Justice, René Bagoro, already points out that an investigation is open because it is necessary to find those who abducted them. " It is not possible to give more information in the current state because the ex-hostages are still in shock, " he said. It is the anti-terrorist pole that will take over now.

" It is not said that it was the terrorists who kidnapped them but the conditions push us to transmit the file to the anti-terrorist pole ," said the minister.

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