{"id":21342,"date":"2020-06-16T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21342"},"modified":"2020-06-16T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T09:09:20","slug":"militants-attack-convoy-kill-24-soldiers-in-mali-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21342","title":{"rendered":"Militants attack convoy, kill 24 soldiers in Mali ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An attack on a military convoy in central Mali<\/a> by armed militants witnessed the killing of no fewer than 24 soldiers and the injuring of eight others who are now receiving treatment in a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army officials on Monday said about 12 vehicles had been in the convoy and four of them were destroyed in the ambush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No group has admitted carrying out the raid but Islamist militants are active in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The army said eight survivors had been found following about 60 miles (100km) from the border with Mauritania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest attack came a week after tragedy struck in the volatile Mopti region in central Mali when armed assailants invaded the area, killing no fewer than 26 people and burned a village, thus displacing many after the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack was confirmed by Aly Barry, an official from Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani association, who also noted that the village was torched and its chief killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two women and a nine-year-old girl were among those killed, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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