Mali : au moins 15 chauffeurs tués dans une récente attaque contre un convoi de carburant
At least 15 drivers were killed last Thursday in an attack attributed to jihadists against a convoy carrying fuel in western Mali, in which dozens of tanker trucks were destroyed, AFP learned Monday from local and security sources.
Since September, jihadists from the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), affiliated with Al-Qaeda, have imposed a blockade on several Malian cities and regularly attacked these convoys, suffocating the country's economy and its capital.
This attack, which took place on the road leading from the Senegalese border to the large Malian city of Kayes (west), marks a new intensification of offensives of this type in Mali after several weeks of calm.
"JNIM fighters arrested them before executing them at point-blank range, blindfolded," a security source speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP on Monday, reporting 18 victims.
"We counted 15 bodies of drivers on the ground. These bodies had been abandoned on the ground next to the burnt-out tanks," a local radio host told AFP, reporting the testimony of an official from the neighboring village.
According to him, "the smell of rotting bodies led the villagers to go and see" before "burying them on the spot".
This is the first time that jihadists have systematically killed truck drivers, although some had died in previous attacks.
Last November, after several weeks of attacks against convoys, JNIM claimed in a propaganda video that from now on all tanker truck drivers would be considered "military targets".
In a statement seen by AFP, JNIM announced that it had ambushed the Malian army on Thursday between Diboli (a town located on the Senegalese border) and Kayes, without mentioning the attack on the tanker trucks.
During a meeting on Sunday with Malian authorities, truck drivers demanded that the army go and collect the bodies.
"We tried to recover the bodies, but they prevented us from doing so," a member of the National Union of Drivers and Truck Drivers of Mali told AFP.
This route leading to Senegal in the west was generally spared from this type of attack, as fuel convoys came mainly from Ivory Coast in the south.
According to a security source, military escorts of tanker trucks had been suspended for several months on this Senegal-Mali route, concentrating on the route coming from Ivory Coast.
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