At least two people were killed and many injured this morning. Moroccan military drone attack In the town of Ain Bentili, located on the border between Western Sahara and Mauritania.
According to information from the Ecsaharawi news portal, the attack is part of a series of military operations carried out in the last day, about one kilometer from the Mauritanian military base.
The deaths in this latest drone attack a woman and a young man determined to be her son. Both were hit by a missile while inside a vehicle.
Also in the area several seriously injured Given that the attack took place in a transit zone for civilians moving towards Mauritania.
The Mauritanian Army confirmed and targeted the death of a woman. several people disappeared, including minors. Search and rescue efforts carried out by Mauritania continue in the region.
Saharawi news agency SPS accused Moroccan forces of “barbaric bombardment” of citizens and property in Sahara and Algeria as part of a policy of escalation by an “occupation regime”.
As reported to EFE by a security source in Zuerat, 600 kilometers north of the Mauritanian capital, nuachchotstated that the vehicle was attacked He came from the Saharawi camps of Tindouf in the southwest. He set out for Algeria and the country’s northernmost Mauritanian town, Bir Um Grin.
Sources in the field confirmed this. At least eight bombings occurred over the weekend, resulting in several deaths. in addition to damage to water tanks, camps and trucks.
The new armed incident occurred after that. Three Algerian civilians were killed in a similar bomb attack on 1 November. Against a commercial convoy in the same region and Algeria attributed to Morocco.
The situation in this part of the Sahara is tense as the Moroccan Army expelled Saharan militants at the end of 2020. He said they had closed the only road between Mauritania and the Sahara region for several weeks and that Morocco links with sub-Saharan Africa.
A day later, the Polisario Front announced that it was assessing the breach of the UN-brokered ceasefire signed in 1991 and the start of harassment along the so-called defensive wall of Morocco.