By Thursday night they had reached the last Islamist bastions close to the border -- around Aguelhok.
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The account of the stoning in Aguelhok is from the city's mayor.
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Col Thierry Burkhard said the "fairly significant" targets had been hit in the Aguelhok mountains near the Algerian border, according to the AFP news agency.
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