Remains of 'Africa's Che Guevara' riddled with bullets: lawyer

The family lawyer of Burkina Faso's former leader captain Thomas Sankara says an autopsy on him showed his remains "riddled with bullets". 

The family is still waiting for DNA results to confirm the body's identity. 

Seen as Africa's Che Guevara, the anti-imperialist revolutionary was hastily buried in a 1987 coup. 

Permission for an exhumation was denied during the 27-year rule of his successor Blaise Compaore, who was ousted in an uprising last year. 

BBC