Kirk Woodman's body was found on Jan.16 in the northeast of the landlocked West African country.
CAIRO- Islamic State claimed to have kidnapped and killed a Canadian citizen in Burkina Faso in January, but security sources said they believed he actually died during a botched attempt by a criminal gang to sell him on to another group.
Canadian geologist Kirk Woodman's body was found on Jan. 16, two days after his abduction by a dozen gunmen at a mining site operated by Vancouver-based Progress Minerals in the northeast of the landlocked West African country.
In an article trumpeting Islamic State's insurgencies in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the group's weekly Al-Naba newspaper detailed an operation to kidnap and kill Woodman and showed a photograph of what it claimed was his driver's license.
Woodman's body was left in the desert by "the Caliphate soldiers," Al-Naba said, though it put a date on Woodman's execution using the Islamic calendar that would equate to Jan. 25 - several days after the body was actually found.