Feb 27, 2019 – Seventeen civilians were killed and 15 were wounded in a blast caused by a booby-trapped corpse in central Mali, security sources and a local official said on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Diankabou, a small town about 150 kilometres (90 miles) east of the city of Mopti, they said. The gunmen who killed him had planted explosives on his body and around it,” the source said. “This is a method that jihadists use to cause maximum deaths,” another security source said. On February 14, jihadists in neighbouring Burkina Faso used an identical method, rigging a corpse dressed in military fatigues with explosives.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 27, 2019 15:45 UTC