On Friday morning, the corpses of the Moroccan drivers, who were victims of a gun attack by an unidentified gunman in Mali, were deported to Morocco on a flight from Bamako via Casablanca to Al Massira airport in Agadir.
The closing ceremony of the coffins of the two drivers’ bodies was attended by Hassan Naciri, Ambassador of Morocco in Mali, members of the embassy, Moussa Diarra, President of the Moroccan Mali Friendship Association, and Imam Thirio Hadi Thiam, President of the Federal Council of the Tijani Order in Mali.
The two Moroccan truck drivers were killed and a third driver was injured as a result of an unidentified armed attack, while transporting fish in large trucks from Morocco to African countries, according to Moroccan diplomatic and Malian security sources on Sunday.
The Moroccan News Agency (MAP) stated on Sunday that the members of the armed group were “hiding among the trees on the sides of the road”, and that they “were masked, wearing bulletproof vests and had walkie-talkies.”
Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Financial Cooperation, received the Moroccan ambassador in Mali, who expressed during the meeting with his Moroccan counterpart “the strong condemnation, on behalf of the transitional president, head of state, Colonel Assimi Goita, and the government for this cowardly and barbaric attack,” according to MAP.
The news agency added that the Moroccan embassy in Bamako is in contact with the official authorities in the two countries, noting “a request to open an investigation by the Malian authorities to find out the circumstances of the accident and take the necessary measures.”
Mali has been suffering from a wave of multifaceted acts of violence that have left thousands of victims, most of them civilians, since the outbreak of a rebellion led by separatists and jihadists in the north of the country in 2012, despite the intervention of the United Nations and French forces and other African countries.
The violence was exacerbated by local conflicts and looting in the center of the country, where most attacks against civilians are recorded, according to the human rights department of the United Nations mission in Mali.
add your comment
Terms of publication : Not to offend the writer, people, sacred things, or attack religions or the divine self, and refrain from racist incitement and insults.