Dozens of people were killed in the bombing at a wedding in Mali, Africa reports edition A Bamako.
According to his sources, at least 20 civilians were killed in the airstrike. RIA Novosti notes that according to other sources about a hundred people became victims.
An unidentified plane inflicted air strikes on the night of January 4. The tragedy took place in the central part of Mali near the city of Duenza. The publication notes that the participants in the wedding ceremony were bombed.
Perhaps the cause of the incident was the error of military pilots. The local air force, peacekeepers UN (MINUSMA), as well as the French military have military aviation in Mali. conducting Operation Barkhan.
The situation in Mali has been unstable since 2012. Then Tuareg rebels and several Islamist groups captured the north of the country, creating the self-proclaimed Independent State of Azavad. In 2013, France brought troops into Mali, returning the territory to the control of the central authorities of the African republic. Since then, Islamists have used ethnic rivalries to recruit militants.