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Tuesday 15 augusT 2017
Burkina Faso: Driver purposely

steers into French
18 dead in suspected jihadist attack on busy eatery pizzeria; girl killed

families on a Sunday night first,” said Guebre, whose
at the Aziz Istanbul restau- hands were still bleeding By ANGELA CHARLTON
rant when horror struck from the cuts he suffered OLEG CETINIC
once again in Burkina when he threw himself to Associated Press
Faso’s capital of Ouaga- the ground to avoid the SEPT-SORTS, France (AP)
dougou. At least 22 people bullets. Gunfire rang out — A man who may have
were wounded. long into the night before been trying to kill himself
Less than two years ago, ji- the country’s special forc- rammed his car into a piz-
hadists killed 30 people in a es ended the attack after zeria east of Paris on Mon-
similar attack at the nearby nearly seven hours. Initially day, killing a 13-year-old
Cappuccino cafe, which authorities had said there girl and injuring her young-
only recently reopened in a were three or four assail- er brother and at least 11
city where fear of another ants. However, govern- others, authorities said.
attack has been high. ment spokesman Remy The driver was immediately
Eight of the dead in Sun- Danguinou told reporters arrested. Police said the
day’s attack were citizens early Monday that two at- man’s actions in the town
of Burkina Faso, authorities tackers had been killed by of Sept-Sorts were deliber-
said. Three Lebanese and the authorities. There was ate, but not thought to be
two Canadians were also no immediate claim of re- terrorism-related.
killed, according to the sponsibility but the attack The 13-year-old girl and
victims’ respective foreign bore the hallmarks of the her brother were among
ministries. Other victims January 2016 assault on the the restaurant patrons eat-
came from Kuwait, Sen- Cappuccino — gunmen ing on the outdoor terrace
egal, Nigeria, Turkey and opening fire on diners at a of Pizzeria Cesena when
France, state prosecutor restaurant popular with for- a man in a BMW accel-
Maizan Sereme said. eigners, prompting a mas- erated toward them, an
The attack began around 9 sive search for the culprits official with the national
p.m. Sunday when the Aziz as gunfire and explosions gendarme service told The
Istanbul, an upscale Turk- continued into the night. Associated Press.
ish restaurant patronized President Roch Marc Chris- The girl died immediately,
by many foreigners, was tian Kabore declared three while the boy’s injuries are
packed with diners. Two days of national mourning. considered life-threaten-
This image taken from video, early Monday, Aug. 14, 2017,
shows an armored vehicle driving down a street after an attack young men wearing jeans “The fight against terrorism ing, the official said. At
in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Suspected Islamic extremists and jackets drove up on is a long-term battle,” he least three others were
opened fire at a Turkish restaurant in the capital of Burkina Faso motorcycles and began said in a statement Mon- hospitalized in serious con-
late Sunday, killing at least 18 people in the second such attack indiscriminately shooting at day. “That’s why I’m calling dition, and eight more sus-
on a restaurant popular with foreigners in the last two years. the people inside with Ka- for vigilance, solidarity and tained light injuries, said
(@Yabsi1er via AP) lashnikovs, witnesses told unity of the whole nation in the official, who was not
The Associated Press. order to face the coward- authorized to be publicly
By B. OUEDRAOGO her colleagues. “I heard a noise when they ice of our adversaries.” named.
Associated Press “I just want to go to the smashed a car with their In Paris, the office of French The incident reignited fears
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina hospital and see who is motorbike and before I un- President Emmanuel Ma- in France after a string of
Faso (AP) — Hours after still alive,” the distraught derstood what happened cron said he discussed the attacks in which a vehicle
suspected Islamic extrem- young woman, who was they started shooting at the attack in a call with his was the weapon of choice.
ists opened fire as pa- still dressed in her uniform, customers on the terrace,” Burkina Faso counterpart. An Algerian man drove his
trons dined at the popu- said early Monday. “I am said Assane Guebre, who The leaders agreed that car into a group of French
lar restaurant where she calling them in vain, no re- had been keeping an eye it was urgent to acceler- soldiers last week, and an
worked as a waitress, Amy sponse.” The death toll rose on customers’ cars parked ate the deployment of a Islamic extremist truck at-
Sawadogo was still wan- to 18 and authorities said outside. “They were close new 5,000-strong anti-terror tack in the French city of
dering around barefoot at many of the victims were to me, and I still don’t know force in the Sahel, a state- Nice left 86 people dead a
a crisis center asking about children dining with their how they did not hit me ment said. q little more than a year ago.
The man arrested in Mon-
Russian security agency says it foiled IS attack plot day’s attack is thought to
have tried to kill himself
last week, French Interior
MOSCOW (AP) — Rus- bombers along with an tacks were planned by two subway that left 16 dead Ministry Pierre-Henry Bran-
sia’s top domestic security Islamic State envoy and senior IS militants who fight and wounded more than det said on BFM television.
agency said Monday it has an expert in explosives. with IS. The agency didn’t 50 in April. President Vladi- Brandet said the man, born
thwarted suicide bombings One of them is a Russian give their nationalities, but mir Putin said in April that in 1985, was not known to
in Moscow planned by the national and three others their names given by the some 9,000 militants, about intelligence or police. He
Islamic State group in Syria. are from ex-Soviet Cen- FSB appear to indicate half of them from Russia did not identify him.
Four people have been ar- tral Asia, the FSB said. The they hail from the former and the rest from ex-Soviet Two police officials said
rested on suspicion of plot- agency released a video in Soviet Union. Central Asian nations, have the incident is considered
ting attacks on Moscow which its agents inspect a In May, the FSB arrested an- joined the Islamic State in over and authorities are
transit system and shop- house used by the group to other group of suspected IS Syria. He emphasized that not searching for accom-
ping malls, the Federal Se- make explosives while two members in May who were a key goal for the Russian plices, but to find out what
curity Service, or FSB, said in suspects lie down on the also accused of plotting military operation in Syria motivated the driver.
a statement. floor in handcuffs. It didn’t terror attacks in the capital. is to crush them there and A judicial official said Mon-
Those arrested included say when the arrests took The arrests follow a suicide prevent them from coming day night that the Paris
two would-be suicide place. The FSB said the at- bombing in St. Petersburg’s back home.q prosecutor’s office..q