Two French journalists slain in Mali

Report: Journalists seized in Mali


By Pierre Meilhan, CNN
November 2, 2013 -- Updated 1753 GMT (0153 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  •  The French Foreign Ministry confirms the deaths
  • The incident occurred in Mali's north
  • The journalists worked for Radio France International
(CNN) -- French journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon have been found dead in northern Mali, the French Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
The two Radio France International journalists had been kidnapped Saturday morning, a local governor said, according to RFI sister network France Info.
The kidnapping occurred outside the Kidal region in the northern part of the African nation.
Verlon and Dupont "were abducted by four men aboard a Toyota in Kidal-Ville," Kidal Gov. Adama Kamissoko said while in Bamako, according to France Info.
The kidnapping and deaths come the same week that four long-held French hostages were released. They had been abducted by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in neighboring Niger and had been held since 2010.
Earlier this year, as part of France's intervention to flush out Islamist militants in Mali, the French military secured the area around Kidal, the last major town that was under rebel control in northern Mali.
 
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