One of the Canadian victims of a terror attack in the capital of Burkina Faso was a pregnant newlywed who was living in the country while finishing a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in England.Tammy Jane Mackay Chen, 34, was one of two Canadians killed in the attack on a restaurant Sunday night in Ouagoudou that authorities in the African nation are treating as a terrorist incident. She was killed along with her husband, Mehsen Fenaiche, who is a Senegalese citizen and a Muslim, said the man’s brother, Naim Fenaiche. The couple were married last month in Ouagoudou. On her Facebook account, Chen identified herself Tammy Chen Fenaiche. Chen’s death was confirmed by her grandmother, Doris Mackay.“She was going to have my first great grandchild, a grandson. She was six months (pregnant),” MacKay told the Star.Eighteen people were killed late Sunday when suspected Islamic extremists opened fire at a popular Turkish restaurant in Ouagoudou, the capital.“It is with very great sorrow that I can confirm the deaths of two Canadians in yesterday’s attack in Burkina Faso,” Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday.“The heartfelt condolences of our government go out to the loved ones of those targeted and the victims of this tragic attack. Canadian consular officials are working hard to provide assistance to their loved ones.”A native of Montreal, Chen studied education at McGill University and then at Queen’s University. She worked as a French teacher at Toronto’s Glen Ames Senior Public School and Swansea Junior Public School, according to her resume posted to the University of Cambridge’s Center of Development Studies website. But it was at Queen’s University that she developed a passion for development work.In 2011, she co-founded a Canadian charity, Bright Futures of Burkina Faso, that worked toward supporting education for at-risk students in the country.Her ...
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