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Mali attacks leave 16 soldiers dead
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SAHEL, 24 March 2022, (TON): The army said in the latest violence sweeping the Sahel state “twin attacks in Mali this week have killed 16 soldiers and wounded 18.”
The statement lifted the casualty toll of four soldiers dead and 17 injured in separate attacks in the northeast and centre of the conflict-torn country.
The army said “thirty-seven terrorists were also killed during the attacks, and weapons and munitions captured.”
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for one of Monday’s attacks, on a military outpost in northeastern Mali.
An impoverished nation of 21 million people, Mali has struggled to contain a jihadist insurgency that emerged in 2012, before spreading to neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
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