Updated / Friday, 30 Apr 2021
16:04
The coffins were taken off the plane by soldiers at the airport
The bodies of an Irish national and two Spaniards killed during an attack on an anti-poaching patrol in Burkina Faso arrived in Spain by military plane this morning.
The Airbus 310 carrying the bodies landed at a military airbase in Torrejón de Ardoz, east of Madrid.
Spanish journalists David Beriain and Roberto Fraile were accompanying Rory Young, head of the Chengeta Wildlife group, in Arly National Park on Monday when they were attacked.
They were with a group that included soldiers and forest rangers when they were ambushed by assailants in pickup trucks and on motorbikes.
The bodies of three Europeans killed in Burkina Faso were flown to Spain on Friday, with Madrid pledging to keep up a "relentless" fight against the jihadist insurgency raging in Africa's Sahel region. The two Spanish journalists and an Irish wildlife activist were ambushed during an anti-poaching patrol in the impoverished West African nation which has been struggling with a surge in Islamist attacks since 2015. Journalists David Beriain and.
The bodies of two Spanish journalists and an Irish wildlife activist killed by jihadists in Burkina Faso have been repatriated.
David Beriain, Roberto Fraile, and Irish conservationist Rory Young were killed while filming a documentary on poaching on Monday.
One Burkinabe soldier was also killed, according to Spanish authorities.
Both journalists had long experience in conflict zones and had joined Young on an anti-poaching patrol, led by a special military wildlife force in eastern Burkina Faso when their convoy was ambushed by jihadists.
The government of Burkina Faso said six other people were wounded in the attack and one person is still missing.
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