Two dead in attack on Mali village,

RAMAKO,

Armed men on motorcycles attacked
a village in central  Mali killing
two civilians  officials said,,

Souleymane Diko ,a local teacher ,said
two men on motorcycles had been
reported behaving suspiciously three
hours earlier ,
"We now understand that they were
carrying out reconnaissance on the
place he said,

The  assailants fired shots at the police
station and town  hall on Friday evening
bringing,"terror to  Boni "and leaving
two people dead ,one elected local official
told AFP,

Boni actually situated near the centre of the
west African  nation, is part of the restive vast
swathe of desert referred to as northern Mali,

The region was occupied by jihadists linked
to al -qaeda who imposed a brutal regime,

of Islamic sharia before they were driven

out by a French -led military operation launched
in January 2013

While their command structure  was largely
smashed ,Islamic fighters are still able to
carry out sporadic attacks,and security in the
region is further threatened by an armed
separatist movement,

The Malian army said on Wednesday it had
killed three gunmen near the boarder with
Burkina Faso,AFP