Some 30 Malian soldiers killed during retaking of key town, says army chief
“I regret the loss of around 30 people, 30 fallen martyrs,” army chief General Jean Elysee Dao told state TV, adding that about 60 were wounded, including some in serious condition.
The Malian army says about 30 troops have been killed and dozens more wounded during an operation to retake the northern town of Anefis from rebels.
The al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin controls swaths of rural territory in the country while the FLA seeks to establish an independent state in northern Mali.
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