Mauritanian security forces killed three armed fighters and captured 18 more while intercepting a convoy in the northeast outside of Chegga, near the Algerian and Mali border. The convoy was in a military zone known to be used by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Large stores of drugs were found in the trucks.
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