Two French soldiers were killed in north-eastern Mali on Saturday in an improvised explosive device attack, after three French soldiers were killed in similar circumstances on Monday, the French presidency announced.
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President Emmanuel Macron "
learned with great sadness
" of the death in the Menaka region "
at the end of the morning of two soldiers of the 2nd Hussar Regiment of Haguenau, Sergeant Yvonne Huynh and Brigadier Loïc Risser
", according to a press release from Elysee presidential palace.