Officials in the Burkina Faso government have said the body of Kirk Woodman of Halifax was found with bullet wounds on Jan. 16 in Oudalan province, in the northern Sahel region. The exploration geologist with Vancouver-based Progress Minerals Inc. had been kidnapped the night before by armed gunmen who’d entered a mining camp in Tiabongou, some distance away. “(He) would do anything to make for a great life for his family back home,” said Woodman, a broadcaster based in Edmonton. Woodman would often call his son from overseas, but Matt Woodman recalled they didn’t discuss a great deal other than the extreme heat in the work camps. “Kirk was an amazing father, devoted husband, a caring son and brother … not one day will go by when that we won’t miss him,” he said.

Source: National Post January 30, 2019 21:11 UTC