Three Westerners missing in Burkina Faso were ‘executed’: security source

A Burkina Faso gendarme stands guard outside the Splendid hotel following an extremist attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on January 16, 2016. (AFP)

• Security source: ‘It is very unfortunate, but the three Westerners were executed by terrorists’
• Spain PM Pedro Sanchez confirmed that two Spanish journalists have been killed in an attack in Burkina Faso

OUAGADOUGOU: Three Westerners who went missing after they were attacked in eastern Burkina Faso have been killed by “terrorists,” a senior security source told AFP Tuesday.
“It is very unfortunate, but the three Westerners were executed by terrorists,” said the source, referring to the two Spaniards and an Irishman who went missing after Monday’s attack.

Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed Tuesday that two Spanish journalists have been killed in an attack in Burkina Faso.
“The worst news is confirmed. All our condolences for the relatives and friends of David Beriain and Roberto Fraile, who were murdered in Burkina Faso,” he tweeted, praising “those who, like them, carry out courageous and essential journalism from conflict zones.”