'So many dead': Survivors describe terrifying Burkina Faso ambush

Relatives of victims of an attack on a road leading to the Boungou mine, operated by Canadian gold miner Semafo, wait outside a morgue in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso November 8, 2019. [Reuters]

A mine worker shot during an ambush on a mining convoy in Burkina Faso said on Friday he was one of only three survivors from a bus with up to 80 people aboard, suggesting the death toll may be much higher than officially reported.

Abel Kabore, 35, described the attackers, some speaking a foreign language and shouting “Allahu Akbar” - Arabic for “God is great” - raking three buses with bullets after a security vehicle escorting the convoy hit a landmine.