Twenty-five dead in car bomb attack on Mali military camp -army

Twenty-five people were killed and others were injured when a vehicle packed with explosives detonated on Wednesday at a military camp in Mali's northern city of Gao, according to a provisional death toll announced by the army.

The camp was housing government soldiers as well as members of various rival armed groups, who together conduct mixed patrols in line with a UN-brokered peace accord aimed at quelling violence in Mali's restive desert north.