Malian Bomb Maker Dies In Explosion

The two, suspected bomb makers, are said to be Jihadists from a village called Kadji. 

According to a report from a senior officer with Mali’s gendarmes, the deceased were in a house working on the bomb when it went off.

The town is said to have been seized and occupied in 2012 by al Qaeda-linked fighters who were driven out a year later by a French-led military operation.

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Kadji is a village located across the Niger River from Gao, suspected by local residents of serving as a hide-out for remnants of the Islamist groups.

"The house was completely destroyed. I saw cell phone parts, wiring and detonators. There were pieces of human flesh that landed in neighboring houses," said one of the witnesses.

Despite being driven out of northern Mali's main population centers, Islamist fighters continue to launch regular attacks there.

Two suspected bombers were lynched and burned alive in Gao earlier this month.

Islamists claimed responsibility for a rare attack on a restaurant in Mali's capital Bamako this month that killed five people, including two foreigners.

by Musalia Wycliffe

Source: Reuters