Fifteen members of Mali’s security forces were killed on Sunday by suspected Islamist militants, officials say.
The armed militants stormed the Sokolo military camp in the central Segou region riding motorbikes before opening fire on the soldiers.
AFP news agency says all those killed were gendarmes or paramilitary police.
Mali has been hit by a number of militant attacks in recent years, often carried out by militants linked to the Islamic State group or al-Qaeda.
Late last year, 24 soldiers were killed by militants in eastern Mali. Only weeks earlier, 54 troops had died in another attack.
The West African country has been dogged by violence since 2012 when Islamist militants took over a Tuareg separatist rebellion in the north and seized several cities.
Since then, thousands of people have been killed in the violence, with hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes.
The country has received help from foreign militaries in the fight against Islamist militancy, including France and the U.S. The U.N. also has around 13,000 peacekeeping troops in the country.
