Two Killed In Suspected Jihadist Attack In Mali
Fakhir Rizvi Published May 23, 2018 | 01:10 AM
Bamako, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd May, 2018 ) :Suspected jihadists have shot dead two elderly men in a village by the Niger river in central Mali, according to multiple sources. "Jihadists arrived in the village of Waaka (on Monday), located in Diafarabe commune...
They accused them (the men) of being against the interests of the jihadists," an elected official told AFP.
The men were named as 82-year-old Sinaly Sampana and Mare Tereta, both local residents of Waaka village.
"The jihadists arrived on a motorcycle, they had weapons," said a villager. "They fired and they left." France intervened militarily in Mali in 2013 to help government forces drive Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists out of the north. But large tracts of the country remain lawless despite a peace accord signed with ethnic Tuareg leaders in mid-2015 aimed at isolating the jihadists.
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