Group affiliated with al-Qaida take credit for attacks on army base and river boat
Attacks by suspected jihadists on an army base and a passenger boat on the Niger river in northern Mali killed 64 people, a Malian official has said.
The two separate attacks on Thursday targeted the Timbuktu boat on the river and an army position at Bamba, in the northern Gao region, with “a provisional toll of 49 civilians and 15 soldiers killed”, according to a government statement.
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