The attack, which took place this Friday, March 4 at around 0530 GMT, at the Mondoro camp in central Mali, also resulted in 33 people being injured, including 21 seriously, and seven “missing” soldiers.
As a result of the attack by jihadists on the camp of the Malian army in the center of the country, 27 people were killed, this Friday, March 4, in the ranks of the soldiers and several dozen “terrorists” were “neutralized”, the army said in a statement. this deadliest attack Malian forces have been reported for several months.
33 wounded, including 21 seriously and seven “missing”.
The attack, which took place around 0530 GMT this Friday morning, also injured 33 people at the Mondoro camp in central Mali, including 21 seriously, and seven “missing” soldiers, according to the same source. According to the army, 47 of the attackers were “neutralized” in the morning, and another 23 – after “shelling the terrorists’ hideout.”
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“The offensive dynamics of seeking and destroying terrorist havens will continue at the same speed,” the Malian armed forces assured in a press release. Several sources in Mali told AFP on Friday afternoon that many people had died in the Mondoro attack.
The Mondoro camp, located close to the border with Burkina Faso, has come under repeated attacks in the past by jihadists who have tried to impose their power on the central state’s offices or foreign presence. An operation against the camp and nearby Bulkessy resulted in the deaths of about fifty soldiers in September 2019.