Bamako, Mali – President Assimi Goita, the interim leader of Mali, was almost murdered on Tuesday, July 20, after the Eid prayers at a mosque in Bamako, the nation’s capital.
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Confirmed reports have it that one of the two attackers was wielding a knife with which he almost stabbed the president, DW.com reports.
However, security aides around Goita intervened, overpowered the assailant, and arrested him while the colonel was taken to the military camp in Kati from which the presidency afterward disclosed that he was “safe and sound”, VOA added.
Speaking later on what could have turned out to be a couter-cooup, the president said: “That’s part of being a leader, there are always malcontents.
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“There are people who at any time may want to try things to cause instability.” Also, Latus Toure, the director of the worship centre, said an attacker wounded a civilian in his attempt to kill the president.
