PARIS (Reuters) - A fifth French soldier has been killed in the country's nine-week-old military campaign against Islamist rebels in Mali, the government said on Sunday.
An explosive device went off under a vehicle carrying Corporal Alexandre Van Dooren during a search for rebel arms caches in northern Mali's Ifoghas mountains on Saturday, according to France's defence ministry and the president's office.
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