UAV

UAV event in Mali on Fri 11th September 2026

11th September 2026

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On 11 September 2026, an armed group (likely the Malian army, based on the type of action and possession of the deployed weapons) launched a Shahed Harpy-A1 kamikaze drone that crashed in the village of Inatiyara, coded to the nearby town of Tin Zaouaten (Tinzawatene, Abeibara, Kidal). The target of the drone was unspecified. There were an unspecified number of dead and injured among Chadian and Hausa workers. Unspecified fatalities coded as 3. On the same day, another two Shahed Harpy-A1 kamikaze drones crashed in Tintiska near Talhandak (coded separately).

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