"The wreckage of the car flew three kilometers": An attack on the French military took place in Mali

In Mali, there was an attack on the French military who participated in the anti-terrorist operation "Barkhan". Some of them were injured.

This was reported by the France 24 TV channel, citing local sources of information.

Soldiers were injured in a car bomb explosion in the Kaiguru area of ​​the city of Gossi in the central part of the country. To evacuate the wounded, the command sent helicopters from the village of Gao.

It was a mined vehicle, which is rare in the region, and was targeted at the Barkhan patrol.

- said Vasim Nasr, a terrorism expert working for the channel.

He also added that the wreckage of the car was scattered about three kilometers from the scene of the attack. This indicates a large amount of explosives planted. At almost the same time, a firefight broke out between the jihadists and the French military, and at a considerable distance from the blown up car, outside the city, near its northern outskirts.

It is noteworthy that the attack took place shortly after French President Emmanuel Macron announced the curtailment of military operations in the African region of the Sahel, which covers Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania and Niger. Mali is considered one of the hottest spots in Africa because of the Islamist groups operating here, and the French contingent has been present there for several years.

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[Well done]

Three kilometers? And everyone is alive? I do not believe. "Fear has big eyes".

[xorek]

Quote: Welldone

Three kilometers? And everyone is alive? I do not believe.

The question is, what are the French military doing there? And on what basis ..

[Well done]

The question is, what are the French military doing there?

Obviously grunting?

[Terenin]

Quote: Welldone

The question is, what are the French military doing there?

Obviously grunting?

Exactly, including for such scattering of debris.

[Catfish]

They would be better off fighting the Islamists at home. And then soon all the girls will be forced to put on a veil.

[Cananecat]

Quote: Welldone

And everyone is alive? I do not believe

The French are prone to exaggeration. ))

[Murmur 55]

yes they would have proved, it’s just that the phones were charging

[loki565]

So this is about the wreckage of a mined car, maybe they were far from him, well, they lied a little)))

[Thrifty]

Three kilometers scattered fugitive paws, which the French were carrying to their military base

[knn54]

Well, what is it like without Gaddafi? *
There is a chance to get at least a second Somalia.
Niger, Mauritania and Mali will collapse unambiguously. Without the army of Chad, the coalition is ineffective.

[Crabong]

This is some kind of provocation.

[Terenin]

Quote: Krabong

This is some kind of provocation.

With the scattering of debris, like a provocation

[tuts]

a little off topic: in the photo, a military man poses with an empty store, or did it seem to me?

[Terenin]

Quote: tots

a little off topic: in the photo, a military man poses with an empty store, or did it seem to me?

This is generally from the MARPAT camouflage family, for the US Marine Corps, and a patch, in my opinion, too.
Or do they dress all NATO members in it?

[Obstacle]

there generally is "Zarnitsa" ... the trunk is "sunk", not Clerons, without glasses ...

[sabakina]

These Frenchmen would have written about three nautical miles! Charlie Perrault unfinished!

[Legionista]

He also added that the wreckage of the car scattered about three kilometers from the scene of the attack.

In the original, the journalist said that local residents living three kilometers from the explosion said that their houses were damaged by shrapnel. Local residents. They told me. Now they will demand compensation.
By the way, there are victims, 6 French soldiers and 4 local residents (one of them is a child).

[Azis]

Emmanuel Macron announced the curtailment of military operations in the African region of the Sahel, which covers the territories of Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania and Niger.

And the United States, and after its colleagues in the coalition, is leaving Afghanistan. Who will be left with the territory and where will they all "fight terrorists" now?

[notingem]

We flew three kilometers, not just the splash pools, but the Carlsons

[businessv]

Quote: Azis

Who will be left with the territory and where will they all "fight terrorists" now?

So they do not leave the territory, but the states to which no one invited them! Well, locals will fight terrorists if these terrorists do not suit them. Modern terrorists, as a rule, were created by the terrorist state itself - the states. Well, and having believed in themselves, the terrorists, as a rule, got out of the control of the minke whales.

[geologist]

My solid three on blasthole blast allowed me to observe the explosions of about 30 tons of various CMs in wells at a distance of up to 500m. For blasting work, overhead charges generally admired from 100m. What kind of centuries is this with the scattering of fragments for 3 km.

[ljoha_d]

I see only our guys are dying, they have only wounded, why is that?