Six killed as gunmen attack food convoy in northern Mali
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Armed men attacked a food convoy in northern Mali on Friday and four attackers and two soldiers were killed, as Islamist militants step up a violent campaign.
The convoy was transporting food for people displaced by insecurity in the West African state. Three soldiers were wounded and three attackers were arrested, military sources said.
"While vigorously fighting back, the FAMA (Malian armed forces) killed four terrorists and wounded three," a Ministry of Defence statement said. "One of their vehicles was taken."
Militants based in the desert north killed 20 people in an attack on a luxury hotel in the capital on Nov. 20, 2015, and kidnapped a Swiss citizen from a house in Timbuktu on Jan. 8.
