Tombs at Timbuktu mosque destroyed

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Tombs at Timbuktu mosque destroyed

2012-07-10

Dakar – The Islamists controlling northern Mali on Tuesday destroyed two tombs at the ancient Djingareyber mud mosque in Timbuktu, an endangered world heritage site, witnesses told AFP.

“Currently the Islamists are busy destroying two tombs of Timbuktu’s great Djingareyber mosque. They are shooting in the air to chase away the crowd, to scare them,” one witness said.

“The two mausolea are adjacent to the western wall of the great mosque and the Islamists have….”