Seventeen dead in Ouagadougou restaurant attack

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Security forces respond to 'terror attack' in Burkina Faso
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At least 17 people have been killed and eight others wounded during a terrorist attack on a restaurant in Ouagadougou, the capital of the west African nation of Burkina Faso.

Witnesses say that at least three of the attackers were killed by security forces, but several people remain trapped inside to the building.

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