Police stood by while a crowd of protesters stormed the office of caretaker president Dioncounda Traore and attacked him. His bodyguards shot and killed three of the protesters. The crowd was demanding that ECOWAS, the 15-state West African security bloc, not interfere in Malian affairs. ECOWAS has pledged to send forces to restore security in the Malian north, which has been taken over by Islamists.
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