Seven soldiers were killed and several were wounded in an overnight attack in central Mali, the government said Thursday, in fresh violence in the war-torn West African state.
The troops came under fire late Wednesday from "unidentified armed men" in Dioungani, an area in central Mali's volatile Mopti region near the border with Burkina Faso, Mali's army said on Twitter.
A security official who declined to be named said that, in an assault lasting several hours, the attackers overwhelmed the soldiers'... Читать дальше...