Civil society group says strike on market in north Mali kills 18

Bloodshed has continued in the north of Mali where the junta-led government has spent over a decade fighting Tuareg separatist groups.

An air strike by the army at a market in Mali’s northern Timbuktu region on March 16th killed at least 18 people and injured seven more according to a local rights group via Reuters. Mali’s army claims it was targeting terrorists.

The Tuareg separatist coalition Collective for the Defence of the Rights of the Azawad People said Malian armed forces bombed a weekly market positioned 50 km (or 30 miles) north of the city of Lerneb.

Reuters