The clashes also left one tribal fighter dead and three wounded.
A Malian security source put the number of dead fighters at 60.
The shoes of dead fighters lay in piles inside the entrance.
Those were the dead fighters - another 20 million people died of disease, hunger, and other war-related causes.
His job is to count the number of dead fighters on the mountains - militants killed in what are euphemistically called "encounters" with the army.
Another fighter, dead for some time, was carried out on a stretcher.
The horse shied, but moved only far enough to join the other dead fighter's horse.
What everyone would think, when their yeoman-marshal lay dead and the experienced fighter let herself be trapped in a net.
The dead fighters, who were all found in one of the compound's building, have not yet been identified, military officials said.