Mali defence minister killed in weekend attack

Mali's Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack on his residence, the government said in a statement read on state television on Sunday, marking a high-profile death during coordinated assaults staged a day earlier by insurgents.

A car laden with explosives driven by a suicide attacker rammed Camara's home in the town of Kati, near Bamako, triggering a firefight in which he was wounded and later died in hospital, government spokesperson Issa Ousmane Coulibaly said in the broadcast statement.

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