Malian Army late Saturday confirmed that insurgents killed at least 25 civilians and injured 13 others in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy near northeastern city of Gao on Friday. The army’s death toll differed from a local official’s account of the incident,

Jihadists are believed to have caused a massacre in the northern part of Mali. The attackers operated with the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible, witnesses report. The latest accounts indicate more than 50 victims resulted from the attack.