One person was wounded on Monday when bandits ambushed two US Agency for International development (USAID) vehicles in northern Mali, the deputy director of USAID in Bamako, Paul Tuebner, told IRIN on Tuesday.
Tuebner told IRIN he and five other persons had been travelling from Timbuctu to Bamako in a Toyota Land Cruiser and a pickup truck. They were intercepted near Goundam, some 45 km south of Timbuctu, by 10 to 15 men armed with automatic weapons who had set up a barricade on the road, Tuebner said. The driver of one of the vehicles was shot in the chest and hand when he tried to drive around the barricade, he added. The bandits then made off with the Land Cruiser.
Tuebner said he had no idea of the identity of the attackers. He said there was a similar incident at the same spot about two months ago.
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