French-Moroccan photographer dies of wounds after Burkina Faso attacks

Three attackers have been killed in the assault and three others are still on the run, he said without elaborating.

Twenty-two victims of last Friday’s attack on the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou have been identified Burkina Faso’s Interior Security Minister Simon Compaore said on Sunday.

Among the 30 killed were three French nationals, he added.

The video shot by The Associated Press shows one man wearing a tunic and turban, carrying what appears to be a Kalashnikov rifle around 8:45 p.m., a little over an hour after they first attacked the Cappuccino Cafe.

French-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui has died from injuries sustained in the Burkina Faso hotel attack, taking the death toll to 30.

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

Special police forces are seen during search operations following an attack by Al-Qaeda linked gunmen on January 16, 2016 in Ouagadougou.

“Three were killed and three are still being sought”, he said.

Chamberland’s sister, Marie-Claude Blais, wrote on Facebook: “I still can’t understand how people who had such a love of life, who were always ready to help, always smiling and loved by so many people, can be taken away in such a horrendous way”.

Mr Compaore and Burkina Faso’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Alpha Barry, have met diplomats, trying to reassure them that the west African country will remain a safe place.

Amnesty International driver Mahamadi Ouedraogo, who was showing Alaoui around during her project, was also killed in the attack.

In France, where she was born, President Francois Hollande paid his respects while parliament observed a minute of silence in memory of the dead.

“Burkina Faso is determined to overcome this but is aware that it can not do that alone, without the support of all”.

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