(Reuters) -At least 40 fuel tankers were destroyed in Mali on Sunday when al Qaeda-linked insurgents who had declared a blockade on fuel imports to the country attacked a convoy of more than 100 vehicles under military escort, two sources said on Monday.

After the insurgent group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), announced the blockade last week, a source close to Mali’s chamber of commerce said the country would run out of fuel within two weeks if supplies were completely cut off.

A truckers’ union official told Reuters around 40 fuel tankers were destroyed in the incident on Sunday, while a source close to JNIM said they had destroyed 80.

In a video message, the group’s spokesperson took credit for the attack in the Kayes region in the west of the country, and said the Mal

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