{Bamako – Two UN peacekeepers were shot dead and a third slightly wounded by one of their colleagues in northern Mali, the UN mission said on Sunday, less than three weeks after a similar incident.}<\/p>\n
“Yesterday [on Saturday] at around 19:00 GMT a tragic incident occurred in the Minusma camp at Tessalit, in the Kidal region in which a peacekeeper fired on three of his colleagues,” a statement from the Minusma mission said, without giving the nationalities of the peacekeepers.<\/p>\n
The suspect had been arrested and an investigation into the shooting was under way, the statement added.<\/p>\n
Last month a soldier in the Chadian contingent of the force killed his own commander and an army doctor following weeks of tensions over living conditions.<\/p>\n
The soldier had started an “insurrection” against the contingent’s top brass the previous evening before shooting the two men dead on February 25.<\/p>\n
The 2 000 Chadian soldiers of the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (Afisma) – Minusma’s predecessor – were at the forefront of a French-led military intervention launched in January 2013 to oust Islamist rebels who had taken over vast stretches of the north in the chaos following a coup.<\/p>\n
Dozens of Chadian troops have deserted their posts in a dispute over pay and conditions in recent years, complaining that they hadn’t received a salary in months.<\/p>\n
Twenty-nine members of Minusma were killed last year and more than 80 were injured, making it the most deadly active mission for the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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