BAMAKO {{(Reuters)}} – {Five U.N. peacekeepers were killed and another six severely wounded in an attack on their convoy in northern Mali, a spokesperson for the country’s U.N. peacekeeping mission said on Thursday.}<\/p>\n
Spokesperson Radhia Achouri said other details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
Two U.N. security officials said the attack occurred close to Goundam, a town southwest of the northern city of Timbuktu.<\/p>\n
“It was five blue helmets between Goundam and Timbuktu,” one official with the mission, known as MINUSMA, told Reuters, asking not to be identified.<\/p>\n
A U.N. soldier said the convoy contained peacekeepers from the mission’s contingent from Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n
A French-led military campaign in early 2013 liberated northern Mali from al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels, who seized control of the area after the Tuareg uprising led to a military coup that plunged Mali into chaos.<\/p>\n
Insecurity persists, however, with the violence often blamed on the remnants of Islamist groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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