The authors, unidentified, of this attack on a control station near the capital killed six people, including two gendarmes and a police officer, in a region usually little affected by terrorism.
Le Monde with AFP
Six people were killed in Mali, including two gendarmes and a police officer, in a rare attack near Bamako, announced the Ministry of Security on Friday, July 15.
The attack took place the night from Thursday to Friday, “some 70 kilometers from Bamako”, “at the Santiguila checkpoint, on the road leading to Ségou”, in the center of the country, according to the ministry . She left “six dead”, including three civilians in addition to the three members of the police, and two wounded.
There has almost never been an attack in this area, so far almost preserved from the violence that rages in the north and the center of Mali. It was on the same road connecting Bamako to Ségou that a police officer was killed on June 24 in Fana, in the attack on a police station, by “unidentified armed individuals” according to the police.
serious security crisis
The Santiguila attack has also been carried out “by armed individuals not yet identified,” said the Ministry of Security, led by General Daoud Aly Mohammedine who made a visit to the site on Friday to “note the damage and reiterate safety instructions “.
Mali, poor and landlocked country in the heart of the Sahel, was the scene of two military coups in August 2020 and May 2021. The political crisis goes hand in hand with a serious security crisis in progress since triggering , in 2012, independence insurrections and jihadists in the North.
The power junta in Bamako turned away from France and its partners, thanks to Russia, in an attempt to stem the jihadist propagation which won the center of the country as well as Burkina Faso and the Niger Voisins. These violence left thousands of civil and military deaths as well as hundreds of thousands of displaced.