Police in Mali hunting the killers of two French journalists in the north of the country say they have arrested ten suspects.<br /><br /> Claude Verlon and Ghislaine Dupont were killed on a desert track just outside Kidal, the centre of a Tuareg nomad dispute against the Malian government.<br /><br /> The journalists, working for Radio France International, had just interviewed Tuareg separatist official on Saturday when they were kidnapped by four men, forced into a truck and shot.<br /><br /> The bodies of the journalists have been flown to the capital Bamako and are expected to return to France on Monday.<br /><br /> France led a military operation to clear Islamist rebels from the north of Mali earlier this year and handed over security to a UN contingent in the summer.<br /><br /> The kidnapping and subsequent murders took place close to a military compound where hundreds of UN and French troops are based.
