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Killed Canadian family in the terrorist attack in Burkina Faso were active in humanitarian missions
Six Canadians died in a bloody terror attack on a luxury hotel and cafe in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, that killed at least 28 and injured countless others over the weekend.
In a statement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “On behalf of all Canadians, we offer our deepest condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of all those killed and a speedy recovery to all those injured. We are deeply saddened by these senseless acts of violence on innocent civilians.
“We have offered assistance to the Burkinabé authorities in their investigation of this terrible crime.”
All of the Canadian victims are from Quebec. Four of them are from the same family, and had been in the country for nearly a month to aid in the construction of a school.
Recently retired teacher Yves Carrier, 65, and his wife Gladys Chamberland, who worked for the national resources ministry, were killed along with their son, Charlelie, and Carrier’s daughter, Maude. The family lived in Lac-Beauport, in the Quebec City region.
The two other Canadian victims were their friends and humanitarian work companions, Louis Chabot‚ who worked as a teacher with Maude, and Suzanne Bernie, both also from Quebec.
According to reports, the family and friends had just completed their work on the school when the attack occurred. The group had left Quebec for Africa in December on behalf of the Congrégation des sœurs de Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours along with two other volunteers, according to reports.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Trudeau led a moment of silence to honour the victims of the Burkina Faso while he was speaking at a restored mosque in Peterborough, On., that was firebombed in the aftermath of the deadly attacks in Paris in November.
The attack Friday by multiple people in Ouagadougou started with explosions and hostage taking at about 7:30 p.m., targeting the Splendid Hotel, the nearby Cappuccino Cafe and another hotel. A 12-hour standoff lasted through the night and well into Saturday, with the siege ending after local and French security forces stormed the hotels, killing at least four of the attackers.
Two of the three attackers were identified as female, the Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said in a national radio address.
