More than 60 killed in attacks on passenger boat and army base in Mali
The two separate attacks targeted the Timbuktu boat on the Niger river and an army position at Bamba, in the northern Gao region with "a provisional toll of 49 civilians and 15 soldiers killed", according to a government statement.
It did not specify how many died in each assault, but the assaults were "claimed" by a group affiliated to Al-Qaeda.
Earlier the Malian army said on social media that the boat was attacked around 1100 GMT by "armed terrorist groups".
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