Malian president’s chief of staff, three others killed in ambush

EU Mission troops pictured during a shooting class at a training compound on March 10, 2017 in Koulikoro, Mali where the interim president's chief of staff was one of four murdered people [Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)

The chief of staff for Mali’s interim president, Oumar Traore, and three others have been killed in an ambush, the government said on Thursday.

The ambush took place in the rural area of Nara in Mali’s southwestern Koulikoro region, the statement said, without providing further detail on when the attack occurred or who was responsible for it.