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| Unidentified gunmen have opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania, witnesses and officials have said. | Unidentified gunmen have opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania, witnesses and officials have said. |
| Six men traded fire with embassy guards before shouting "Allah Akbar" (God is great) as they fled the scene, the Associated Press reports. | Six men traded fire with embassy guards before shouting "Allah Akbar" (God is great) as they fled the scene, the Associated Press reports. |
| Some people were wounded, police and emergency services told Reuters. | Some people were wounded, police and emergency services told Reuters. |
| In December four French tourists were killed while picnicking in Mauritania. The government blamed the incident on Islamist militants. | |
| At least nine people were arrested in Mauritania in connection with the earlier attack, which occurred in Aleg, about 250km (160 miles) east of the capital, Nouakchott. | |
| Prosecutors said they were thought to belong to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb - an Algeria-based group formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. | |
| Authorities in the west African country of Guinea-Bissau later said that they had arrested five more Mauritanians over the killings. | |
| The attack - a rare event in the south of Mauritania - led the French organisers of the Lisbon-Dakar Rally to cancel the event due to security concerns. |