The death toll following the recent bomb attack on a military camp in northern Mali has risen to 77, a French Army spokesman said on Thursday.
“We regret to say that there are 77 deaths,’’ said Colonel Patrik Steiger, said.
France intervened in Mali in 2013 to drive back Islamist groups that got control of large swathes of the country a year earlier, and it maintains a large, regional operation aimed at stamping out insurgents.