Two UN peacekeepers killed in Mali attacks
Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed and “several
others” were wounded in two attacks in central and northern Mali on Saturday,
Sky News reported quoting the United Nations mission in the country as saying.
In a statement, the MINUSMA peacekeeping mission
said Blue Helmets had “repelled a complex attack” at dawn at its base in Ber,
in the Timbuktu region, launched from several trucks armed with “rocket
launchers, machine guns and other explosives.”
A second attack in Konna, in the central Mopti
region, involved an improvised explosive device (IED).
“According to an initial toll, two peacekeepers were
killed and several others were wounded,” it said.
The Burkina Faso army confirmed that two of its
peacekeepers had been killed in the Ber attack, with five wounded.
