Six French soldiers were injured in Mali in a suicide car bomb attack, but their lives are not in danger, the Chief of Staff of the Army told the agency (EFE) Saturday.
The attack took place on Friday morning in a rural area in southern Mali, when a car was heading towards a group of French and Malian soldiers who were conducting a joint operation in the town of Issy, 50 km from the city of Humbori.
Upon discovering the matter, a French armored vehicle intercepted it and the then driver detonated the explosive device.
The six injured were transported by helicopter to a military hospital, and two of them were airlifted to France.
Five French soldiers were killed last week in Mali in two separate explosive devices that exploded as their cars crossed.
France has deployed more than five thousand soldiers in the African Sahel region to combat jihadist groups in Operation “Barkhane” alongside the authorities of Mali, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.
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