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Mali: Militants Kill 17 Soldiers At Military Base in Mali
Gunmen killed 17 soldiers and wounded 35 others in an attack on an army camp in central Mali on Tuesday morning. Several groups have claimed responsibility.
The soldiers were attacked on their base in the central town of Nampala, in what Mali's Defense Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly described as a "coordinated terrorist attack."
At least two groups have claimed responsibility for the attack. The first is the Islamist group Macina Liberation Front which is linked to the jihadist organization Ansar Dine. The second is a recently-formed group from the ethnic Peul community, calling themselves the National Alliance for the Protection of Peul Identity and Restoration of Justice (ANSIPRJ).
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A government statement issued late on Tuesday said it was not yet clear who had carried out the killings. But army spokesman Souleymane Maiga told Reuters that Al Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb had also been involved in the attack. The Malian government said it would find and punish those responsible.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201607200864.html
The soldiers were attacked on their base in the central town of Nampala, in what Mali's Defense Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly described as a "coordinated terrorist attack."
At least two groups have claimed responsibility for the attack. The first is the Islamist group Macina Liberation Front which is linked to the jihadist organization Ansar Dine. The second is a recently-formed group from the ethnic Peul community, calling themselves the National Alliance for the Protection of Peul Identity and Restoration of Justice (ANSIPRJ).
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A government statement issued late on Tuesday said it was not yet clear who had carried out the killings. But army spokesman Souleymane Maiga told Reuters that Al Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb had also been involved in the attack. The Malian government said it would find and punish those responsible.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201607200864.html
