Burkina president survived assassination attempt, party says

By AFP 24 January 2022, 6:52 pm

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 28 , 2017 file photo French President Emmanuel Macron, center, and Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, center right, visit a school in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (AP/Ahmed Yempabou Ouoba, File)

Burkina Faso’s president has survived an assassination attempt, his party says but the leader’s whereabouts were uncertain following an army mutiny.

Roch Marc Kabore was the victim of an “aborted assassination attempt,” the People’s Movement for Progress says in a statement, adding that a minister also survived an attempt on his life and the president’s home was sacked as the country “heads with each passing hour towards a military coup by force.”