A suspected Islamist suicide bomber blew himself up but caused no other casualties in an attack in the northern Malian city of Kidal, the bastion of Tuareg separatist MNLA rebels, witnesses said on Tuesday. A French-led military offensive launched in January succeeded in ending a year-long occupation of the desert north by al Qaeda-linked armed Islamist groups, ousting them from urban areas. But Islamist attacks, usually targeting Malian soldiers and African forces deployed to the north, persist. Seven people were killed in a suicide bombing in Kidal in February, and three soldiers from Chad died in another attack there in April. "It was exactly 10.20 a.m. (11:20 a.m. British time) when we heard the explosion," Moussa Ag Ibidas, a local aid worker, told Reuters.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:58:59 +0000
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