On 30 March, according to a spokesmen for the Malian army, jihadists fighters from (Al-Qaeda in Islamic Magreb) AQIM attacked the city late Saturday night and have continued fighting Sunday. The attack itself started at about 10 pm local time, when a jihadist suicide bomber blew himself up at a Malian military checkpoint at the western entrance to Timbuktu. "The jihadist was on foot and died on the spot, but his explosives slightly injured one of our soldiers", said Capt. Samba Coulibaly, a spokesmen for the Malian military in Timbuktu. According to Mali army Captain Modibo Naman Traore, the suicide bombing served only to distract the military and allow a group of jihadists to infiltrate by night. A Malian soldier taking part in the fighting said: "The jihadists are a few. They sneaked int