42 Mali Soldiers Killed In Suspected Jihadist Attacks
Muhammad Irfan Published August 11, 2022 | 12:10 PM
Bamako, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Aug, 2022 ) :Forty-two Malian soldiers died in a sophisticated weekend attack by suspected militants using drones and artillery, authorities said Wednesday, the latest violent incident to rock the troubled Sahel country.
The toll is one of the bloodiest in Mali's decade-long insurgency, which has spread from the north of the country to the centre and south and into neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
A document naming the dead was authenticated to AFP by several senior military officials, while the government later confirmed the toll in a statement that said 22 soldiers were injured and 37 "terrorists" were neutralised.
The attack occurred on Sunday in the town of Tessit, in the troubled "three-border" region where the frontiers of the three nations converge.
On Monday, the army had said 17 soldiers and four civilians had died. Relatives of the victims, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that some of the civilians had been elected officials.
Monday's statement pointed the finger of blame at the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), saying its members had deployed "drone and artillery support and (used) explosives and an explosives-laden vehicle".
The last time Mali's armed forces sustained such losses was in a string of attacks in the same region in late 2019 and early 2020.
Hundreds of soldiers were killed in assaults on nearly a dozen bases, typically carried out by highly mobile fighters on motorbikes.
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