Malian army delivers initial assessment near Diabaly

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The Malian army gave this Monday evening a first assessment of the ambush tended to one of its patrols Sunday afternoon in the region of Diabaly, north of Segou towards the Mauritanian border. According to the FAMA, 24 soldiers were killed.

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It is by a tweet that the Malian army announced this first assessment of 24 dead, eight survivors and four vehicles destroyed. "  Assessments are continuing in the area,  " said the army, which had announced a few hours earlier that reinforcements had been dispatched to the area.

Following the BOUKA WERE ambush, 24 #FAMa personnel died. Survivors (8) have been recovered. Vehicles (4) have been destroyed.
Assessments are continuing in the area. pic.twitter.com/qe9Ba4ALH4

The Malian army does not say if any missing persons remain, but this is not excluded, since according to our information at the end of the morning about forty men were missing.

There is currently little information on the course of the ambush. We simply know that the patrol attacked on Sunday included around sixty men and that the first survivors were able to return to their camp not far from the Mauritanian border on their own.

Since Monday afternoon, a video has been circulating with several bodies of Malian soldiers killed in an environment that seems to correspond to that of the attack, but it has not been authenticated yet.

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