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Burkina Faso: At Least 37 Dead in Attack On Canadian Mining Convoy
DW, 6 November 2019
Gunmen ambushed five buses carrying workers for a Canadian gold mining company in an attack near a mine in Burkina Faso. It is the deadliest attack in five years of near constant… Read more »
Dozens Dead in Attack on Mining Convoy in Burkina Faso
At least 37 civilians were killed and more than 60 were wounded when gunmen attacked a convoy of local employees working for the Canadian gold mining company Semafo in Burkina Faso on Wednesday morning. Five buses and a military escort were ambushed about 40km from a gold mine in Boungou in the eastern part of the country.
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