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The Malian siege of an international anti-terrorist task force, the G5 Sahel, was attacked Friday in a car bomb attack, killing two soldiers and a civilian, according to a security source and a local leader. Shortly after Friday prayers, a suicide bomber in a UN-painted vehicle exploded at the entrance to the G5 base in Sevare, which caused an explosion, "said the spokesman. AFP a military source of G5 Sahel force.According to witnesses and images of the scene, the entrance wall was destroyed, the force of the explosion having thrown the vehicle there. 19659002] This is the first attack on the headquarters of the Five Nations force, with the support of France in 2017 to roll back jihadist insurgents and criminal groups in the vast and unstable region of the Sahel. [19659003TwosoldiersoftheforceandonecivilianwerekilledaswellastwoattackersaccordingtoasourcewithintheforceandthegovernorofMoptitheregionalcapital[19659006
Governor Sidi Alassane Toure said that 39, there was "confusion" at the morgue.
"We arrested four suspects" , he told AFP, adding that
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A local orange vendor, Haoussa Haidara, said, "There has been an explosion" followed by shootings that lasted more than an hour.
Residents of Sevare, 600 km northeast According to Bouba Bathily, a shopkeeper who sheltered shots in his house, he came three days before a meeting in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, between French President Emmanuel Macron and the leaders of the capital. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres highlighted security deficiencies at several force sites in Mali in a report released in May. He visited Sevare headquarters last month
"Bad conditions on and around the site represent a significant security threat, and delay the deployment of the remaining soldiers," the report said.
The G5 Sahel targets 5,000 soldiers from five nations – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, but faces funding problems.
He operates alongside the 4,000 French soldiers in the troubled trilateral zone where Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, condemned a "cowardly attack" in a statement on Twitter Friday
. "Solidarity with our African partners with whom we will continue the fight against terrorism," she said.
The G5 Sahel was to be completed by mid-2018, but its full deployment experienced delays, equipment concerns and human platform charges Tuesday, the UN said that Malian soldiers in the G5 Sahel force had "summarily" executed 12 civilians in a central Mali market in May in retaliation for the death of a soldier.
Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga said the government had "taken the necessary steps" after the bloodshed, which he condemned.
France intervened militarily in Mali in 2013 to help government forces hunt jihadists linked to al-Qaeda in the north. But vast tracts of the country remain illegal despite a peace deal signed with Tuareg ethnic leaders in mid-2015 to isolate the jihadists. Violence has also spread to Burkina Faso and Niger.
Earlier Friday, French headquarters declared that troops from its Barkhane mission in Mali killed or captured 15 jihadists on June 22 in a joint operation with local forces.
The clash took place in a forested area of the Inabelbel region, southeast of Timbuktu, in a statement.
A group of about twenty jihadists were attacked by helicopters and fighter jets.
Debris was scattered in front of the headquarters after the attack
Photo of May from the G5 Sahel headquarters in Sevare, central Mali
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