“The President of the Republic learned with great sadness about the deaths in Mali at the end of the morning of two soldiers of the 2nd mechanized reconnaissance regiment of Agno,” TASS quotes a message from the Elysee Palace.
It is noted that their car was attacked with an improvised explosive device during a reconnaissance operation in the Menaka area.
It is specified that as a result of this attack, a third soldier was also wounded, there is no threat to his life.