The mayor of Bankass in Mali announced yesterday, Sunday, that 20 civilians were killed in an attack that took place last Saturday on a village in the Mopti region in the center of the country.

According to the mayor, the attack targeted a village in the Bankass District, an area suffering from the activity of extremist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

He explained that unidentified gunmen attacked the villagers as they were heading to work in the fields, noting that the authorities counted 19 dead the day before yesterday, but the final number exceeded 20.
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‘Reuters’ quoted local officials in Mali as saying that unidentified gunmen killed about 40 people in an attack on the village of Djiguibombo in the Mopti region in central Mali.

The attack, which occurred on Monday, targeted the village of Djiguibombo, one of several areas in northern and central Mali, where armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS have been active for more than a decade.

The mayor of Bankass, Moulay Guindo, said that the attack was “very dangerous, as armed men surrounded the village and shot people,” noting that the attack occurred during a wedding, which led to a state of panic among the attendees.

The mayor was unable to determine the exact number of deaths, but other local officials reported that the attack killed about 40 people, most of them men.
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26 people were killed in a village in the Mopti region in Mali the day before yesterday, Sunday, in an attack carried out by an armed group while the villagers were working in the fields.

The mayor of Bankass, Moulay Guindo, stated that the military forces were not able to reach the village until it was too late, which increased tensions in this West African country.

This attack is not the first incident in the region, as the same village previously witnessed a similar attack in early July that killed about 40 people, in addition to another attack in May that killed more than 20 people.

It is noteworthy that the Global Terrorism Index for 2023 classified Mali as the second most affected country by terrorism in Africa after Burkina Faso, based on the number of deaths resulting from terrorist attacks during the year 2022.
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