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Mali army says 24 soldiers, 17 militants killed in attack on northern patrol

By Reuters
21 November 2019   |   1:59 pm
Twenty-four Malian soldiers were killed and 29 wounded in an attack on an army patrol in northern Mali on Monday (November 18) in which 17 militants were also killed, a spokesman for the army said.

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