French, Malian forces hunt suspects behind journalist killings

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Soldiers carry the coffin of Radio France Internationale (RFI) journalists killed in the town of Kidal, at the airport of Bamako on November 3, 2013. AFP photo

Several suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of two French journalists in Mali on Saturday, Malian security sources told FRANCE 24.

“There were around ten arrests in the Kidal area,” FRANCE 24 and Radio France Internationale’s correspondent said Serge Daniel from Bamako. “Security sources insisted that people being arrested did not necessarily make them guilty,” he added.

Daniel explained that although Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were abducted and murdered in the desert town of Kidal, “there are known water points and camps where information can be found”.

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