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Couple kidnapped in Burkina Faso were Australian citizens - Burkina president


    ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A couple kidnapped overnight in northern Burkina Faso near the border with Mali are Australian citizens who run a clinic and have lived in the West African nation since 1972, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said on Saturday.

    In an address broadcast on state-owned television, Kabore identified the victims of the abduction, which took place as al Qaeda fighters were attacking a hotel in the capital, as Kenneth and Jocelyn Elliott. Burkina Faso's security ministry had earlier said the couple were Austrian citizens.

    (Reporting by Joe Bavier; editing by Ralph Boulton)