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Two youths with suicide vests detained in Gao

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09-02-2013 | 06:22

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Two youths with suicide vests detained in Gao

The residents near the city of Gao in northern Mali detained on Saturday two youths claiming that they have had explosives strapped to their bodies near the site of a suicide attack which took place the previous day, a witness reported to AFP.

The witness added that the pair, an Arab and a Tuareg, was detained some 20 kilometers north of Gao, on the same road where Friday's attack occurred.

French-led troops have driven the Islamist insurgents who occupied northern Mali for 10 months out of the towns they controlled, but continue to come under attack in reclaimed territory.

Friday's bombing, the first suicide attack in Mali, wounded a Malian soldier at a military checkpoint. It was claimed by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), a derivative of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

The area around Gao has been on high alert since the bombing and a series of landmine explosions and guerrilla attacks.

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