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Bandits kill soldiers in the northeast

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    Three soldiers riding in an ambulance were killed and one wounded by eight armed men last week in northern Mali, AFP quoted local television as saying. The reason for the attack was unknown, it said.

    The soldiers had been returning from Gao, over 800 km northeast of Bamako, where they had delivered armed bandits captured in connection with a spate of cattle rustling, AFP said.

    The ambulance was later found abandoned between Gao and the city of Nenaka.

    A source from the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) told IRIN that two NGO vehicles had been stolen in Gao since mid-December.

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