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| Gunmen kill at least 14 Mali soldiers, several wounded in attack:Army sources |
| 2018-01-28 |
| [AlAhram] Unidentified button men killed at least 14 soldiers in central Mali, an area targeted by a growing wave of attacks by Islamist holy warriors, when they overran a military camp early on Saturday, two army officers said. The camp in the town of Soumpi, near the southern boundary of Mali's Timbuktu region, came under attack at around 6 a.m. (0600 GMT). "The provisional toll is 14 dead, 17 maimed and two enemies killed. The search is still on for those missing," one of the sources said. The second source said "around 15" soldiers had been killed. "The soldiers abandonned their position. The enemy carried away material," he said. Both sources asked not to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media. Violence by holy warrior groups, some with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, is on the rise in West Africa's arid Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... . In Mali, attacks have grown more frequent and spread further south towards the capital, Bamako. |
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