sat 16 jan 2016, 07:18

More than thirty hostages freed in Burkina Faso

OUAGADOUGOU –

Security forces have Saturday 33 hostages freed from a hotel in Burkina Faso. That the ministry of Communications said. Under the released visitors, the hotel is also a minister.

Photo: AFP

,,There are 33 hostages are free, including a minister. Everyone is for research to the hospital. The operation in the hotel goes by,” says Remis Dandjinou, the minister of Communications.

The people in the hotel in Ouagadougou were detained by a group of terrorists, that the building Friday night stormed. The attack is claimed by terror group al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. According to the director of the university hospital in Burkina Faso are on the attack at least twenty deaths and fifteen people injured.

At the bevrijdingsactie was a fire in the hotel. In the Splendid Hotel stays are usually many foreigners, including employees of the UN. During the attack several shots and explosions heard.