Shelling killed one child and wounded at least two other people in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu on Saturday,
“On Saturday… at 5:30 pm, armed terrorist groups… targeted the town of Timbuktu with a shell that fell near the market not far from the [Malian Solidarity Bank]”, said an army spokesman. Four civilians were taken to hospital.
On Monday, local officials told AFP that Islamist fighters had had the city under blockade for several days. The threats came in the month that saw the UN peacekeeping mission for Mali bring forward its withdrawal from a base in the country’s north, citing the perilous security situation. MINUSMA, whose mission began in 2013 after separatist and jihadist rebellions broke out in northern Mali the previous year, has since pulled out of two bases near Timbuktu, Ber and Goundam, transferring them to Malian control.Timbuktu is one of several large northern cities that fell first under Tuareg rebel control then into the hands of Salafist fighters following a 2012 insurrection.
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