Family members of victims of an ambush on workers near a Canadian-owned mine, wait and they try to request from officials the list of victims' names at Bogodogo hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Anne Mimault
OUAGADOUGOU (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.
A fellow survivor gave a similar account of Wednesday's militant attack on the convoy of five buses, which Burkinabe authorities said killed 38 people and injured 60.
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