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2018-10-05 Africa Subsaharan
Six Soldiers Killed in Burkina Faso Blast: Security Sources
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Six soldiers were killed Thursday when their vehicle hit an improvised bomb (IED) in eastern Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, and several others were seriously injured, security sources said.

"On Thursday morning, a military vehicle hit a homemade bomb between Gayeri and Foutouri. Six soldiers were killed and several others were seriously injured," a source said. Another source said three others were in a "critical condition" and had been evacuated to Ouagadougou, the Burkina capital.
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