What the records say
- When
- 3 Jan 2021
- Kind
- Military operation
- Deaths
- 22
- Coordinates
- 14.50° N, 3.19° W
- Description
- terrorist attack
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Bounti wedding airstrike
2021 massacre conducted by France
On 3 January 2021, the French Armed Forces carried out an airstrike targeting a wedding, claiming that terrorists were killed without any collateral damage. A UN report later revealed that out of the 22 people killed, 19 were civilians.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mali wedding airstrike: France says it neutralized dozens of jihadists in an airstrike but people in the town of Bounti in Mopti Region”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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