Mali: the French Barkhane force was attacked Monday, June 21 by suspected jihadists
French soldiers from Operation Barkhane on patrol in Mali.
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French forces in Operation Barkahne were attacked Monday in northern Mali, south of the main northern city, Gao.
Everything suggests that a vehicle bomb was used.
French soldiers were injured, suicide bombers killed.
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With our correspondent in Bamako,
Serge Daniel
In the Malian locality of Gossi, the attack took place in the Kaïgourou district, not far from the
Anne-Marie Salomon
dispensary
named after a French nun who set up a health center on site to treat local populations.
If some evoke an explosive device against the French soldiers, according to our information, to be more precise, it is a vehicle bomb which launched against a position of the French forces Barkhane.
A loud noise was heard by civilian witnesses.
The French soldiers reacted immediately, according to several sources.
Three French wounded, suicide bombers dead
Suicide bombers have reportedly been killed.
Side French forces, there are at least three wounded.
They were quickly evacuated by plane to the town of Gao.
In the vicinity of Gossi, French troops have a large military camp from which anti-jihadist actions are carried out as far as neighboring Burkina Faso.
The populations live in insecurity.
Recently, a wealthy merchant from Gossi was found murdered, and two civilians traveling further north were killed by unidentified gunmen.
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