The Mali Ministry Of Defense Announced That It Had Repelled An Attack By Militants From The Katiba Masina Unit

About seventy terrorists belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen group attempted to seize a military unit of the Malian Armed Forces in the province of Koulikoro. Terrorist attack in the village Murdia began with the suicide bombing of two suicide bombers in vehicles filled with explosives and shelling with artillery mines. Then the militants launched an assault. Government troops with the support of the so-called. PMC "Wagner" put up fierce resistance. The security forces managed to eliminate forty terrorists, the rest of the attackers escaped. Jihadist weapons fell into the hands of the military, incl. AK-103 assault rifles. Five soldiers were killed in the shootout. 

On the same day, the group’s militants shot nineteen civilians in one of the villages. in the Mopti region. The terrorists accused the population of supporting government troops