The violence erupted at an informal gold mining site in the mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district, near the border with Libya, where the army has been fighting rebel groups for more than a decade.

这一暴力事件发生在库里布古迪山区的一个非正式金矿区，该山区临近利比亚边境，军队已在当地抗击叛军组织十多年。