Eight bus passengers were killed Tuesday by a road mine in central Mali, police and the bus company said.
The vehicle, which was on route from the central town of Douentza to the northern town of Gao, "struck a mine, (and) eight passengers were killed," Oumar Ould Mamoud of the Sonef bus company told AFP.
Police confirmed his account and said the blast occurred 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Douentza.
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