Over 50 People Were Massacred on a Ferry on Niger River, Identity of Killers Still a Mystery
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Over 50 People Were Massacred on a Ferry on Niger River, Identity of Killers Still a Mystery

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Regular passengers of the “Tombouctou”, a ferry whose route runs along the Niger River in northern Mali, are accustomed to hearing gunfire from the riverbank during their journeys. One of these witnesses, Alhadj M’bara, described himself as a veteran of the “Tombouctou” — the white and blue three-decker boat with a slightly old-fashioned but dashing flag bearing the logo of the Societe Malienne de Navigation. “Renewed tension in the north — the coalition of terrorists and independence fighters at work,” ran the headline in the government daily newspaper l’Essor on September 11. “What has happened to us is God’s will,” she said with a sombre look in her eyes but a firm voice, sitting in her mud house in the city of Timbuktu.

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