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    News CentralBy News CentralMay 20, 201902 Mins Read
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    Four civilians, two Malian police officers, and a customs official were killed in an attack on a border post on Mali’s border with Burkina Faso, security sources and government officials said Monday.

    “Armed men attacked the border post at Kouri on Sunday night,” a local policeman said, who asked not to be identified. 

    “Two gendarmes, a customs officer and four civilians, including two Ghanaians, were killed.”

    Another security source confirmed the toll and said the two Ghanaians were lorry drivers.

    “The assailants arrived on three motorbikes and in a car,” the source said. “They fired at the gendarmes, the customs officers and the civilian truck drivers.”

    “Right now, we can’t confirm who the attackers were. They arrived in Kouri from two directions. We were told that they took the soldiers’ boots as they left.” -Government official said.

    Kouri is a major crossing point for goods entering or leaving Mali.

    Mali has been fighting extremism since Islamist militias seized the north of the country in 2012 before being pushed back by French troops in 2013.

    A peace agreement signed in 2015 by the Bamako government and armed groups has failed to restore stability. 

    Southern Mali, in particular, has been rocked by a string of attacks near the country’s border with Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.

    In December last year, Mali’s security service said it had arrested four suspected jihadists who had been planning attacks in the three countries.

    They were arrested near Koutiala, near the Burkina border, it said.

    The four had taken part in a double attack in the capital Ouagadougou in March 2018 and in the kidnapping of a Colombian nun, Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti near Koutiala in February 2017, the security service said.

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