{"id":5057,"date":"2017-09-29T16:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T16:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:59:27","slug":"center-of-mali-five-wounded-in-an-attack-on-a-ship-abandoned-on-the-banks-of-the-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/center-of-mali-five-wounded-in-an-attack-on-a-ship-abandoned-on-the-banks-of-the-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Center of Mali : Five wounded in an attack on a ship &#8220;abandoned&#8221; on the banks of the Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A ship belonging to the Malian Shipping Company (Comanav) was attacked on Thursday at 10 pm between Tawana and Ti\u00e9kelendougou, near Kouakourou in central Mali.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are five and have been there since last night\u201d, says a local source at the bedside of the wounded. Last night, a Comanav ship from Mopti was the target of \u201cmany heavy gunshots\u201d. \u201cThe assailants stopped on both banks and began to open fire on the boat, on both sides\u201d, says our source.<\/p>\n<p>The shootings continue against the ship until the outskirts of Kouakourou where the presence of the Malian army since several days, deterred the assailants. The boat came to dock just in this village where a strong terrorist presence pushed the authorities to deploy some elements of the army.<\/p>\n<p>There were at least five injuries on the scene. \u201cThere is a nurse among the military and a caregiver who took care of them\u201d, says a former local elected official. According to him, three of the five wounded are in a critical condition: one who has been hit in the abdomen and two in the skull.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the five wounded are still aboard the ship where \u201cthere is better temperature\u201d and under the impotent gaze of the populations. The inhabitants are looking for ways to evacuate them on Mopti. But for the moment, it&#8217;s mission impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are besieged. Our boats have not been able to travel to Mopti for several weeks\u201d, adds the former mayor. And the soldiers on the ground, too, claim they cannot \u201creduce their troops by one iota\u201d in the face of the threat in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, they are abandoned on the banks of the river\u201d, adds another local source.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Aboubacar Dicko<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ship belonging to the Malian Shipping Company (Comanav) was attacked on Thursday at 10 pm between Tawana and Ti\u00e9kelendougou, near Kouakourou in central Mali. \u201cThey are five and have been there since last night\u201d, says a local source at the bedside of the wounded. Last night, a Comanav ship from Mopti was the target [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mali","8":"category-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}