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Security forces in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou were fighting to dislodge Al Qaeda linked militants who had taken hostages during an attack on a hotel on Friday night.
The funeral for the Burkina Faso military officers killed in an attack on a supply convoy headed for the northern town to Djibo on September 26 is held in the coutnry's capital, Ougadougou. The ambush, claimed by Al-Qaeda, with an official death toll of 37 people, 27 of them soldiers, has become emblematic of the state's inability to secure remote countryside areas and protect local people, 10 years into a bloody jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region. IMAGES
A soldier stands guard outside the town hall of San Miguel Totolapan where the walls are strewn with bullet holes after at least 20 people were killed, including the mayor, when gunmen stormed the building in the southern part of the country in a broad daylight attack. IMAGES
Barda (Azerbaijan), Oct 28 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Aziz Karimov) At least twenty people died on Wednesday and more than forty were injured as a result of an attack by Armenian forces against the Azerbaijani city of Barda, the Azerbaijan Attorney General denounced.FOOTAGE OF THE CITY OF BARDA.
Six people were killed in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou on Friday when they attacked the French embassy and the country's military headquarters, the government said, adding that members of the security forces had also been wounded. PHOTOS of authorities responding to attack