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Czechs in Takuba confronted with an IED. No injuries

(B2) A Czech special forces military vehicle hit an IED (improvised explosive device) on Saturday morning (June 19) in Mali.

Vehicles of the Czech forces on patrol for EUTM Mali (Czech Army / B2 Archive)

« All the soldiers are fine. No one was hurt ", indicated the Czech army on Twitter. The vehicle " performed an operational task "as part of the Takuba task force without wanting to give" more information on the type of mission » performed.

According to Wassim Nasr, the incident took place near the Menaka camp.

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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