Three Malian soldiers killed in rebel attack

[WorldNews]

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Mali's main Tuareg-led rebel alliance killed three Malian soldiers on Monday in an ambush in the west African nation's restive desert north, military sources told AFP. The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) attacked the troops as they slept early in the morning, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, a Malian army officer said on condition of anonymity. "We are at the scene, a delegation of the governorate of Timbuktu just arrived in Maoude to establish the facts," said the source, adding that the attackers came in two vehicles. Confirming "the death of three Malian soldiers on Monday in a rebel attack", a Timbuktu-based source in MINUSMA, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, described the attack as "a serious violation of the ceasefire that endangers peace".

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