At least 17 people have been killed and eight
wounded after gunmen opened fire on a Turkish
restaurant in Burkina Faso.
Suspects stormed the Aziz Istanbul restaurant in the
capital Ouagadougou late on Sunday.
Witnesses saw customers running out of the
restaurant as police and paramilitary gendarmerie
surrounded it, according to Reuters.
Communications Minister Remi Dandjinou told a news
conference in the early hours of Monday morning that
17 people had been killed.
A provisional toll also counted eight injured
casualties.
It was not clear who carried out the attack. A police
spokesman did not immediately respond to a request
for comment.
Burkina Faso, like other countries in West Africa, has
been sporadically targeted by jihadist groups
operating across Africa's Sahel.
Most attacks have been along its remote northern
border region with Mali, a country which has seen
attacks by Islamist militants for more than a decade.
Thirty people were killed when gunmen struck a
restaurant and hotel in Ouagadougou in January 2016
in an incident claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb.
A new al-Qaeda-linked alliance of Malian jihadist
groups claimed an attack that killed at least five
people at a Mali luxury resort popular with Western
expatriates just outside the capital Bamako in June
this year.
Gunmen storm Turkish
restaurant in Burkina
Faso killing at least 17
and injuring 8.
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