2018 Ouagadougou attack

terrorist attack on French Embassy in Burkina Faso
Event terrorist_attack Q50312175
2018 Ouagadougou attack
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2018 Ouagadougou attack

Summary

2018 Ouagadougou attack is a terrorist attack[1]. It draws 18 Wikipedia views per month (terrorist_attack category, ranking #91 of 326).[2]

Key Facts

  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack is in the country of Burkina Faso[3].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's image is recorded as Smoke rises from Embassy of France in Burkina Faso, March 2, 2018.jpg[4].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's instance of is recorded as terrorist attack[5].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's location is recorded as Ouagadougou[6].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's part of is recorded as Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso[7].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's target is recorded as Embassy of France, Ouagadougou[8].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's target is recorded as Burkina Faso military[9].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's point in time is recorded as +2018-03-02T00:00:00Z[10].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 12.36666667, 'lon': -1.51666667}[11].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's participant is recorded as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb[12].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+85'}[13].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11ggbk70b6[14].
  • 2018 Ouagadougou attack's aerial view is recorded as Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso by Planet Labs.jpg[15].

Why It Matters

2018 Ouagadougou attack draws 18 Wikipedia views per month (terrorist_attack category, ranking #91 of 326).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . voanews.com. voanews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . france24.com. france24.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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