April 2013 Kidal attack

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On 12 April 2013, around 9:50 am in Kidal, Mali, four Chadian soldiers were killed and five civilians were injured when a suicide attack hit a market area. The attackers were militants linked to MOJWA. Some accounts say there was one bomber; others say two bombers detonated their belts as soldiers passed by. The explosion damaged part of the market and injured bystanders. After the blast, Chadian soldiers fired into the crowd, injuring five civilians; one wounded soldier later died in a Gao hospital. A suspect, Sidi Amar Ould Algor (an MNLA officer), was arrested and said to have owned the car that brought one bomber to the market. On the same day, a Chadian Air Force helicopter crashed nearby, killing all five onboard. Two days later Chad announced it would withdraw its troops from Mali, citing jihadist tactics. The attack followed months of Chadian and French forces using Kidal as a base to fight Islamist rebels in the Adrar des Ifoghas.