OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - The Al-Qaida fighters who stormed a popular hangout in Burkina Faso's capital at dinnertime came with a mission to kill as many people as possible, firing at people as they moved to a nearby hotel and setting the cafe ablaze, survivors and officials said Saturday.
Associated Press: Burkina Faso hotel seizure ends; 4 jihadis, 28 others dead
Burkina Faso troops stand guard outside the Splendid hotel and the nearby Cappuccino restaurant following a jihadist attack in Ouagadougou on January 16, 2016. At least 26 people, many of them foreigners, were killed in an attack overnight on a top hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso, the latest country to be drawn into a regional jihadist battle against the West and its allies.
