BAMAKO – Dozens of armed men on motorbikes suspected of being Islamic militants attacked a police base in southern Mali early on Wednesday, security sources said.
“Very early this morning, a police base in Misseni was attacked by armed men,” Colonel Souleymane Maiga, director for communication for the Malian army said. He did not give a death toll or comment on the identity of the attackers, but said reinforcements had been deployed to the area.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”70560″]
One of the military sources said that about 30 attackers arrived at the base in the Sikasso Region near the Ivorian border waving a black flag and shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Greatest” in Arabic). A police officer and a gendarme were killed in the attack and the base was burned down, he added.
(Reporting by Souleymane Ag Anara and Tiemoko Diallo; Writing by Emma Farge; Editing by Daniel Flynn)
(Reuters)