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Two Spanish citizens dead after attack in east Burkina Faso The attack left two Spanish citizens dead [Getty] Date of publication: 27 April, 2021 Share this page: Two Spanish citizens have been killed in an ambush in eastern Burkina Faso, the Spanish government said on Tuesday. The Spanish journalists and an Irish citizen went missing during an attack by gunmen Monday near a national park, said Arancha González Laya, Spain’s foreign affairs minister in a press conference. The two Spaniards are from northern Spain and were wo...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Two Spanish journalists and the Irish director of a wildlife foundation were killed Monday in an ambush in eastern Burkina Faso, the Spanish government and

Two Spanish journalists who were kidnapped on Monday in Burkina Faso are dead, the Spanish prime minister has confirmed. Pedro Sanchez tweeted that "the worst news is confirmed", following reports that the two journalists had been killed following an ambush on an anti-poaching patrol, in which they were embedded. Sanchez named them as David Beriain and Roberto Fraile. "All the affection for the relatives and friends of David Beriain and Roberto Fraile, murdered in Burkina Faso. And our recognition to those who, like them, carry out courageous and essential journalism from conflict zones on a ...

An Irish 'wildlife hero' and two Spanish documentary makers are among four people who have been killed 'in a terror attack on their convoy' as they made an anti-poaching film in Burkina Faso.     The group was working on a documentary about poachers in a national park bordering Benin when they were attacked by gunmen, Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Tuesday in a press conference in Madrid. Members of the Reporters Without Borders organisation representing the two reporters' families said the pair were called David Beriain, 44, and Roberto Fraile, 47. Beriain was co...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso —  Three foreigners and one soldier are missing in Burkina Faso after being attacked by gunmen during an anti-poaching patrol, the government said on Tuesday. A special military wildlife unit was ambushed Monday morning while traveling with the foreigners, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from their base at the eastern town of Natiaboni, Yendifimba Jean-Claude Louari, the mayor of Fada N’gourma, the main town in the east, told The Associated Press. A large operation is underway to find them, he said. Two of the foreigners were Spanish and one was Irish, according to se...