<br/><br/>In Mali, militants killed at least 42 people and wounded more than 100 others when they detonated an explosives-laden vehicle inside a military camp in the country's northern city of Gao today. It was the deadliest suicide bomb attack in the country's history.<br/><br/>State media put the death toll at 47, including five suicide bombers, and army spokesman Diarran Kone said that 115 people were also wounded.'<br/><br/>President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita declared three days of national mourning.<br/><br/>The camp housed government soldiers and members of rival armed groups who were due soon to begin conducting joint patrols under a U.N.-brokered peace deal aimed at easing local tensions so the government could focus on fighting Islamist militants.<br/><br/>A French-led military intervention in 2013 drove back insurgent groups, some with links to al Qaeda, that had seized northern Mali a year earlier. But Islamist militants still operate in the region and conduct frequent attacks.<br/><br/>French interior minister Bruno Le Roux described the blast as a "highly symbolic attack" in an area visited only days ago by President Francois Hollande.<br/>''''<br/><br/>