Bomb Explosion in Mali Claim Lives

At least 11 people were killed and 53 injured when a bus hit an explosive device in central Mali on Thursday.

According to a hospital source the explosion occurred on the road between Bandiagara and Goundaka in the Mopti area.

Earlier, police and local sources gave a provisional toll of 10 dead and many seriously injured.

For more than a decade, Mali has struggled to contain activity by armed rebel groups that have killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.