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Burkina Faso convoy attack: Death toll climbs to 37

Burkina Faso convoy attack: Death toll climbs to 37

Montreal-based Semafo said the bloodshed happened on Tuesday about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from its Boungou mine in Burkina Faso’s Eastern region and involved five buses of employees who were being accompanied by a military escort, reports AP.Col. Saidou Sanou, the region’s governor, gave the provisional casualty toll in a statement. The mining company said only that it was aware of “several fatalities and injuries.”