Tuareg rebellion (2012): 2012 coup Internal conflict in Azawad: Foreign intervention: 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 On 3 December 2021 unidentified gunmen attacked a bus in Mopti, Central Mali, firing at its occupants and setting it on fire, killing 31 civilians and injuring 17.

[2] According to the local mayor of Bankass, during the massacre, the insurgents slashed the tires, proceeding to shoot the civilians to death, then set the bus on fire.

[2] Malian authorities sent a group of state security officers to the crime scene,[3] where they found 25 burnt bodies in the vehicle's trunk.

[4] The massacre occurred on the same day that Islamist rebels attacked a convoy in the region, killing two United Nations peacekeepers.

[6] President Assimi Goïta ordered all flags in the country to be flown at half-mast from Sunday to Tuesday, during which Mali would hold three national days of mourning.