French PM Valls says three sought in connection with Burkina attacks

New information reveals that even more Christians were murdered in last week’s al-Qaeda attack in Burkina Faso.

Authorities now know that they had left the hotel and were holed up in the Taxi Brousse restaurant across the street after its employees had fled, the Burkinabe security official said. AQIM said in the statement that it called the attack a “drop in the sea of global jihad”.

The mother of one of the six Quebec victims in the deadly Burkina Faso terrorist attack has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to keep Canadian fighter planes involved in the war on terrorism the Middle East.

ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images Forensics experts inspect a vehicle outside Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou on Monday following the jihadist attack.

Alaoui was working on assignment on women’s rights issues for Amnesty International.

He spoke as details emerged about a delayed, ill-equipped response from Burkina Faso’s security forces, which have been weakened by recent political turmoil.

It was then that Burkinabe and French forces realized that the attackers had been hiding at the restaurant.

Numerous victims of the assault were foreigners.

Ouagadougou “was not considered to be a high risk destination and Leila was being supported by colleagues from our national office… and accompanied by Mahamadi”, the rights group said.

On Sunday, French authorities were back at the scene carrying out a forensic investigation.

It was similar in style to a coordinated assault on a luxury hotel in Mali in November.

The attack was the first of its kind in Burkina Faso, a largely Muslim country that had managed to avoid the kinds of jihadi attacks that have hit neighboring Mali since 2012.

“That’s why Canada remains committed to the coalition against terrorists and to working with other countries on a humanitarian basis and in order to help refugees but also to show military commitment”, he said.

The Franco-Moroccan artist and photographer Leila Alaoui, seriously wounded by gunfire, died Monday in Ouagadougou, after succumbing to her wounds.

In a reminder of the fragile security situation, an elderly Australian couple were kidnapped on Friday in Burkina Faso’s northern Baraboule region, near the border with Niger and Mali.

“Does the MNLA have links with those threatening Burkina?'” Ag Attaher told French radio RFI, adding that he had denied any connection to the attack.