BAMAKO, Mali - Suspected Islamic militants attacked an airport and adjoining military camp in central Mali on Saturday, killing nine civilians and injuring 60 others, the regional government said.
Two local elected officials and a diplomatic source referred to the site – near the town of Sevare in the Mopti region – as a camp housing Russian troops.Opponents say these are “It is the Russian camp and their planes that have been targeted – the camp is near the airport”, a local elected official told AFP.Four loud explosions were heard, followed by automatic weapons fire, witnesses told AFP.The local elected official said Senegalese soldiers from the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali, Minusma, were involved in the fighting.
Minusma’s camp covers four hectares of land next to the airport and the Malian army camp that houses the Russians.
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