Gunmen stage simultaneous attacks in and outside Mali capital, army says

Militants staged attacks in Mali’s capital Bamako and in several locations in the interior of the country on Saturday morning, the Mali army said, in an apparently coordinated assault involving multiple groups.Two loud explosions and sustained gunfire were heard shortly before 6 a.m. (0600 GMT) near Mali’s main military base Kati outside the capital Bamako, and soldiers were deployed to block off roads in the area, a Reuters witness said.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.There was similar unrest at around the same time in the central town of Sevare and the town of Kidal and city of Gao in northern Mali. “There’s gunfire everywhere,” a witness in Sevare said.Mali is battling insurgencies by the West Africa affiliates of al-Qaeda and ISIS. It is also grappling with a much longer history of Tuareg-led rebellion in the north.Mali’s army said in a statement that unidentified “terrorist” groups attacked several positions in the capital and

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