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| French soldier dies in an extremist attack in northern Mali |
| 2016-11-06 |
[Ynet] A French soldier has been killed in an attack in northern Mali after a mine went kaboom!as his armored vehicle passed by during a supply mission, French officials said Saturday. The French Defense Ministry said the attack took place Friday afternoon northeast of the Malian town of Kidal and that Fabien Jacq, a 28-year-old staff sergeant with the French Barkhane force in the country, died overnight. The mine hit two French armored vehicles, wounding another French soldier. The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist publications, said the Mali-based Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... Death Eater group grabbed credit for the attack on Twitter and on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app popular among Death Eater groups. |
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