Tuareg militants killed and took prisoner several Malian soldiers as the two sides exchanged fire in the rebel stronghold of Kidal on Wednesday, a United Nations source told AFP.
"The noise of gunfire has stopped... There are prisoners and deaths among the Malian army's ranks," a source from the MINUSMA, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, told AFP, adding that the rebels appeared to have the upper hand.
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