At least 23 people have died after Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in Burkina Faso’s Capital.
Reports said that the siege was over after at least 150 hostages were freed at Ouagadougou’s luxury splendid hotel.
Gunmen stormed the hotel and a nearby cafe after setting off bombs.
Four of the attackers were killed, two of them reportedly women.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said that it carried out the attack which killed citizens of 18 different nationalities in the West African nation.
French President, Francois Hollande, whose forces were part of the operation against the militants, condemned the attack while describing it as “odious and cowardly”.
