By:
Jennifer Pagliaro City Hall reporter
Six Canadian humanitarian workers from Quebec were among those killed in an attack by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou.
There were 28 people of 18 nationalities
killed and 56 others wounded after a 15-hour siege that ended Saturday
night at a hotel popular with international business travellers on the
busy Avenue Kwame Nkrumah in the city’s centre.
The Canadians were: Yves Carrier; his daughter
Maude; his wife, Gladys Chamberland; their son Charlélie, and their
friends Louis Chabot and Suzanne Bernier, all residents of Quebec, La
Presse reported.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led a moment of
silence for the victims on Sunday at a restored mosque in Peterborough,
Ont., which was firebombed in the aftermath of deadly attacks in Paris
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