1/4/2024 0 Comments Cappuccino restaurant![]() ![]() RTB reported intense gunfire for 40 minutes in the direction of the hotel. Two groups of security forces entered the main lobby five hours after the siege began, as gunfire was reported. Counter-attack Īt 01:00 the next day, the hall was set on fire as commandos tried to free an unknown number of hostages, using explosives to enter the building. About 10 ambulances were used to ferry the wounded to the hospital through the night. Other survivors, including a Slovenian social anthropologist and a French architect, also reported witnessing white people being "singled out" and double tapped by the attackers. Robert Sangare, director of Ouagadougou's university hospital centre, said that one European woman being treated at the hospital had said that the perpetrators appeared to target white people. Currently the area is blocked by security forces waiting for an assault to free the hostages." According to the head of the city's main hospital there were 20 confirmed deaths, while an unnamed Cappuccino staff member said several people had been killed at the restaurant. įoreign Minister Alpha Barry said: "We know that there are victims and there are hostages. ![]() As Ouagadougou Airport is about 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) from the attack site, Air France and Turkish Airlines flights were diverted to Niamey, Niger. Some of the perpetrators arrived at the hotel during the day and mingled with guests, while others joined them after nightfall. A dinner of the ASECNA, which was attended by 200 people, was taking place in the hotel. Both places are frequented by businessmen and foreigners. They attacked the Cappuccino restaurant, which had about 100 guests, according to RTB, and then took hostages at the 147-room four-star Splendid Hotel in the heart of Ouagadougou on Avenue Kwame Nkrumah. On 15 January 2016 at 19:30, according to Communications Minister Remi Dandjinou, six or seven turbaned gunmen, reportedly arrived in four-wheel drive cars and burnt ten vehicles. Attacks and sieges Cappuccino and Splendid Hotel Austrian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Thomas Schnoell added that more information was not known but they were "looking into the matter as quickly as possible." However, the couple were later said to be Australian. ![]() The Security Ministry's Spokeswoman Abi Ouattara also announced that an Austrian couple were kidnapped in the night in northern Burkina Faso near the border with Mali in the Baraboulé area's village of Djibo. Įarlier in the day, at about 14:00 local time, approximately 20 "heavily-armed unidentified individuals" attacked gendarmes in the village of Tin Abao, near the border with Mali, according to the army. The United States has approximately 75 military personnel in the country, including 15 assigned to the embassy and about 60 who provide "security assistance" – training, advising and assisting. The Splendid Hotel was sometimes used by French troops who are part of the Chad-based Operation Barkhane. Burkina Faso is part of the G5 Sahel countries formed to counter insurgent attacks. The recently concluded November 2015 general election then resulted in Roch Marc Christian Kaboré becoming president of Burkina Faso. More locally, the 2014 Burkinabé uprising ousted President Blaise Compaoré, while the consequent 2015 Burkinabe coup d'état, in relation to the electoral process, was eventually put down under pressure from the African Union. Neighbouring countries have also been experiencing a Boko Haram insurgency. Following the Libyan Civil War, neighbouring Mali has been wracked by instability, including Islamist attacks, in the Northern Mali conflict.
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