More than 30 people are reported to have been killed in a car bomb attack on a military base in Mali on Wednesday.
The BBC reported that officials said the incident occurred in northern Mali after a car with explosives detonated.
The detonation occurred in a facility some soldiers and rival armed groups are being housed in the city of Gao.
Reuters also reported that these soldiers and armed groups have been engaging in mixed patrols in line with a U.N.-brokered peace accord to quell violence in the city.
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has declared three days of national mourning over the incident.
MALI | Attentat-sucide dans un camp de Gao. Le Pdt #IBK décrète un deuil national de trois jours. pic.twitter.com/oMrW7njpaj
— Presidence Mali (@PresidenceMali) January 18, 2017
A French-led military intervention in 2013 has driven back Islamist militants, who had seized northern Mali a year earlier.
Source: Africafeeds.com
