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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - Algerian insurgents attacked an army base in this vast country's northern desert, setting off a gunbattle that left at least 24 people dead, the defense minister said Sunday.
President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Taya, who has survived several coup attempts during his 20-year reign, called an emergency meeting of his top military commanders late Sunday.
Those killed in the overnight assault in Mgheiti, near the nation's borders with Algeria and Mali, included 15 Mauritanian soldiers and nine attackers, Defense Minister Baba Ould Sidi told reporters in the capital.
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