Bamako: Gunmen on Monday attacked a lodge in Mali’s capital Bamako that had been transformed right into a base for a European Union army coaching mission within the West African nation, a Defence Ministry official and a witness stated.
The witness stated the assault focused Bamako’s Nord-Sud Lodge, which serves as headquarters for the mission of almost 600 EU army personnel deployed to Mali to coach its safety forces.
“The attackers tried to pressure by way of the entry and the guards posed in entrance of the doorway opened hearth. One attacker was killed. The gunfire continued for a number of minutes,” he stated.
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There have been no casualties amongst employees, the mission stated on Monday.
“No EUTM-Mali personnel has been harm,” the EU mission stated on Twitter, including it was now securing the world.
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A Malian Defence Ministry spokesman confirmed that photographs had been fired on the lodge. “The safety forces arrived on the scene a half hour in the past. I haven’t got extra info than that for the second,” Colonel Diarran Kone advised Reuters.
There was no speedy declare of duty for the assault. Dozens of individuals have been killed in an assault in November on Bamako’s Radisson Blu lodge claimed by al Qaeda within the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The group additionally focused a seashore resort city in Ivory Coast earlier this month, killing 19 individuals.
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