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- A suicide car bomb destroyed Defence Minister General Sadio Camara’s residence in Kati, killing him in the deadliest strike on Mali’s military leadership.
- Al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front fighters coordinated the assaults.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres, African Union, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) secretary-general and U.S. Bureau of African Affairs condemned the attacks while residents reported gunfire and explosions in Bamako, Gao, Kidal and Sevare.
