A car bomb detonated outside a police station in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. Chief Constable calls the attack ‘deliberate, reckless and stupid,’ with dissident republican group New IRA suspected. Incident treated as attempted murder.
Mali’s defence minister is killed in nationwide armed attacks as Al Qaeda-linked militants simultaneously assault multiple towns and military bases in one of the country’s worst security crises in years.
Armed groups launched the largest coordinated attack in years across Mali, with fighting erupting simultaneously in the capital Bamako and multiple northern cities.
BBC reports coordinated attacks by armed groups across multiple locations in Mali, with explosions and gunfire reported in several towns.