PARIS: The Dakar rally took an unscheduled break on Saturday, steering clear of armed bandits in Mali and allowing a depleted field time to recover from desert ordeals.
Just 144 vehicles made it to Friday night's bivouac, fewer than half the number of original entrants who set out on January 1, with others still stuck in the ninth stage from Tidjikja in Mauritania to Nema.
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