BULLET casings should not be strewn across city blocks. Yet in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, hundreds were on Saturday morning. Small or large, thin or long, copper or silver-coloured, they covered the intersection one street away from the Splendid Hotel, which had come under attack for more than 12 hours on Friday night. The assault left at least 28 people dead and another 56 injured.
The smoke cleared on the morning after the atrocity to reveal the blackened entrance to the hotel, a ruined café across the street and burned-out shells of cars and motorcycles in between. Three assailants have been identified among the dead, though some witnesses claim there were as many as five attackers, including two women. They arrived heavily armed and, according to witnesses, often fired twice into victims to ensure that they were dead. This appears to have been a well planned assault. Some witnesses say they saw the attackers, dressed in black coats or sitting in nearby cars, surveilling their target for several hours before the shooting started. They were all young.
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