Remains of Two Moroccan Truck Drivers Killed in Mali Attack Arrive in Agadir

It was in Bamako on Thursday that the ceremony of coffining and closing the coffins of the mortal remains of the two truck drivers took place. This was in the presence of the Moroccan ambassador to Mali, Hassan Naciri, members of the embassy, as well as Moussa Diarra, president of the Morocco-Mali Friendship Association and Imam Thierno Hady Thiam, president of the Federal Council of Adherents of the Tijaniya Tariqa. During the ceremony, prayers were said for the rest of the souls of the two victims of this attack perpetrated against a Moroccan commercial convoy.

In an interview with the Moroccan ambassador to Mali, the Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Abdoulaye Diop, "strongly condemned on behalf of the President of the Transition, Colonel Assimi Goita and the government, this cowardly and barbaric attack" in which two truck drivers were killed and another injured. He also told the Moroccan Ambassador that measures have been taken to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

The injured driver is still being treated in a clinic in Bamako and his vital prognosis is not engaged.