While some people had already started to ask questions about the causes of these detonations, the general staff of the armed forces indicated in a press release published on social networks that the explosions were due to a fire in a munitions depot. .
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The information spread like wildfire on social networks. With many questions about the origin of the detonations heard at the Yimdi site which houses an arms depot of the national armed forces.
A few hours later, the army general staff provided details in a press release: “ A fire broke out in an ammunition store at Yimdi camp facilities, leading to detonations. »
The army general staff does not give the origin but emphasizes that the fire was quickly brought under control by the prompt intervention of the firefighters. The army, which does not provide any information on the damage caused by this fire, calls on the population to go about their business in complete peace.
The Yimdi barracks are located about twenty kilometers west of Ouagadougou and were the subject of an attack by soldiers of the former Presidential Security Regiment, the former Praetorian Guard of the former President Blaise Compaoré, in January 2016.