Attackers on trucks and motorbikes raid Mali base, kill 33 troops

Attack on military post in Tessit, near border with Burkina Faso and Niger, also left 14 soldiers wounded, army says.

At least 33 Malian soldiers have been killed and 14 wounded in an attack on a military post in the country’s violence-hit northeastern region of Gao, according to the army. Some 100 assailants on pick-up trucks and motorbikes launched the attack on Monday at about 13:00 GMT in the town of Tessit, located 60km (37 miles) southeast of Ansongo, near Mali’s border with Burkina Faso and Niger The army said in a statement on Wednesday that 20 attackers were killed. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.