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Three UN peacekeepers killed, six wounded in Mali attack

 

Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and six wounded in central Mali on Wednesday after a convoy struck an explosive device and came under fire, the U.N. said in a statement.
It was not clear who carried out the attack about 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the town of Bambara-Maoudé in the Timbuktu region, reports Reuters.
Islamist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State operate in the region and have made much of the West African country ungovernable.
The dead peacekeepers were from Cote d’Ivoire, the country’s defence ministry said in a statement.
The U.N. mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, has over 13,000 troops to contain violence caused by various armed groups in the north and centre of the country.
The mission has recorded about 230 fatalities since then, making it the deadliest of the U.N.’s more than dozen peacekeeping missions.

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