MADRID 11 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Malian Army has claimed to have “neutralized” “numerous terrorists” after facing a new ambush in the Ségou region, in the center of the country, without for the moment there being a balance of victims or claims of responsibility for the attack. stroke.
The General Staff of the Malian Army has indicated that the military “dismantled a terrorist ambush” in Saye and has praised the “withering reaction” of the soldiers, before stating that several soldiers were “slightly wounded.”
“On the side of the terrorists, the toll of victims is high and there are many who were neutralized,” he noted in a statement published on his account on the social network Facebook, where he also talks about the seizure of weapons, ammunition, grenades. , motorcycles and medicines.
The statement comes just one day after the Malian Army announced the “neutralization” of “an important terrorist group” in the surroundings of the city of Timbuktu (north), after repelling an “ambush” on a group of soldiers in the route that connects the town with Ber.
The African country is currently led by a military junta established after the coups d’état perpetrated in August 2020 and May 2021, both headed by Assimi Goita, current transitional president, who has led a rapprochement with Russia while distanced from both France and Western governments, including its departure in January – along with Burkina Faso and Niger – from the ranks of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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