Burkina Road Bomb Kills Six In Ambulance

Six people, including a pregnant woman and a young girl, were killed in northern Burkina Faso when the ambulance they were travelling in struck a highway bomb, authorities said Wednesday

Ouagadougou (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 3rd Mar, 2021 ) :Six people, including a pregnant woman and a young girl, were killed in northern Burkina Faso when the ambulance they were travelling in struck a highway bomb, authorities said Wednesday.

"An ambulance from the Djibo health district hit a mine on the road between Gaskinde and Namissiguia in the Sahel region," government spokesman Ousseni Tamboura said in a statement after the Tuesday incident.

"This cowardly and barbarous incident occurred when the ambulance was transporting people to Ouagadougou," he said of the attack.

The six who died were a pregnant woman, her husband, two women accompanying her, a young girl and the ambulance driver.

The vehicle was "completely ripped apart," the source said.