This Article is From Jan 16, 2016

At Least 20 Victims From Burkina Hotel Attack: Hospital

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A general view of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou is seen in this on September 24, 2012 file photo. (Reuters Photo)

OUAGADOUGOU: Around 20 people have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso on Friday, according to the director of the university hospital who spoke to patients wounded in the attack.

"We have received around 15 wounded people. There are people with bullet wounds and people who are injured because of falls," said Robert Sangare, director of Ouagadougou's university hospital centre.

 
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