Mali: shooting in a barracks, evacuated TV headquarters

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 18 - A military spokesman in Mali said gunshots were fired in a barracks near the capital Bamako, reports the BBC. The situation remains confused at the moment while the headquarters of the national television (Ortm) have been evacuated.
    The Norwegian embassy said it had received information that soldiers were headed to the capital and the French embassy advised them to stay at home while still staying at the BBC.
    "This morning, some angry soldiers took the weapons at the Kati base and fired in the air. They were several and very nervous," a doctor from the hospital in Kati, a town about 15 kilometers from the capital and where he was taken in 2012, told AFP. a coup d'état. Meanwhile, a source from the Malian defense minister said: "We are following the situation carefully. The military leaders are in contact with the troops, an official statement will follow during the day" but does not speak of mutiny, which is instead evoked by the countries of the Economic Community of States West Africa (Ecowas) in a statement urging "all soldiers to return immediately to the barracks". (HANDLE).