BURKINA FASO. (THECOUNT) — CTV News is reporting, Kirk Woodman, the Canadian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso, has been found dead.
Woodman was working for Vancouver-based Progress Mineral Mining Company when he was kidnapped this week.
On Wednesday, after Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said she was aware of “serious reports” about the kidnapping, Woodman’s family issued a statement relating their faith in Canadian authorities to secure his safe release.
A spokesperson for Burkina Faso’s security ministry said Woodman was abducted during a raid of a local mining site in the northern party of the country.
Woodman’s son Matt is an employee of CTV News, based in Edmonton, according to ctvnews.ca.
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. It covers an area of around 274,200 square kilometres and is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north; Niger to the east; Benin to the southeast; Togo and Ghana to the south; and Ivory Coast to the southwest, according to Wikipedia.
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