taken on January 1, 2015, shows the logo of the Barkhane Operation
– an anti-Islamist operation in Africa’s Sahel region which began
in July 2014 – at Madama near the Niger border with Libya.
AFP
A French soldier deployed to Mali as part of the
Barkhane force fighting jihadist insurgents has wounded two
comrades with a pistol while drunk, the army headquarters said
Saturday.
The confrontation under the influence happened overnight from
December 24 to 25 at a base in Gao in eastern Mali.
“Two soldiers from the same unit were getting on each other’s
nerves. One soldier wounded two of his comrades with his service
weapon,” an automatic pistol, army spokesman Frederic Barbry told
AFP.
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One of the two men was wounded very lightly, while the other’s
injury was more serious although not life-threatening.
Both were flown out following the shooting and brought to the
hospital in France.
Military police are investigating the incident and “once the
probe is finished, (the shooter) will be flown home,” Barbry
said.
France’s Barkhane force numbers 5,100 troops spread across the
arid Sahel region and has been fighting jihadist groups alongside
soldiers from Mauritania, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger,
who together make up the G5 Sahel group.
Paris is weighing cuts in the number of soldiers deployed in the
region ahead of a summit planned for mid-February.
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