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Ten dead as over 100 battle with injuries after coup

Pulse Staff
Pulse Staff 13:32 - 19 September 2015
An anti-coup protester holds a Burkinabe flag in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, September 18, 2015. Leaders of a coup in Burkina Faso said on Friday they had freed the president and reopened borders, in an apparent olive branch to mediators and protesters ...
An anti-coup protester holds a Burkinabe flag in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, September 18, 2015. Leaders of a coup in Burkina Faso said on Friday they had freed the president and reopened borders, in an apparent olive branch to mediators and protesters ...
Most of the victims were treated for gunshot wounds. Among the dead was a 14-year-old, the source added.
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Ten people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in the streets of Burkina Faso's capital since a military coup on Thursday, a source at the main hospital said on Saturday.

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