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A Mali official claims 4 civilians have actually died, and also 7 have actually been injured in the protest at the Airport of the north city of Kidal against arrest made by French forces.
Mohamed Ag Intalla, a Kidal a traditional chief and national assembly member, claimed the injured have actually been hospitalised.
Protester Mohamed Ag Ibrahim said dozens of demonstrators set fire to a firefighting car and generators to protest against French forces for extraditing recently arrested people to Gao and Bamako.
The United Nations Mali mission said demonstrators broke into the airport, a key center for humanitarian assistance in northern Mali. The UN said peacekeepers have left the airstrip and returned to their base in Kidal.
French forces helped push Islamic extremists from strongholds in northern Mali.
