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Six U.N. peacekeepers wounded by roadside bomb in north Mali
French soldiers and United Nations peacekeepers from Burkina Faso patrol in Timbuktu, Mali, November 5, 2014. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Joe Penney
04/01/2015
BAMAKO (Reuters) - At least six United Nations peacekeepers were wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in northern Mali on Sunday, the U.N. mission in Malisaid.
Northern Mali remains highly volatile two years after France led a U.N.-backed intervention to drive al Qaeda-linked militants from towns they seized in 2012.
Militants have since mounted a comeback targeting the Malian army and U.N. troops deployed there. Peace talks have failed to deliver improvements on the ground.
The vehicle transporting troops of the Niger contingent, part of the U.N. mission in Maliknown as MINUSMA, was travelling on the road between Asongo and Menaka in the Gao region.
The soldiers who were wounded, three seriously, will be evacuated to the city of Gaofor appropriate treatment, the U.N. mission said in the statement.
The mayor of a town in northern Mali died on Saturday from wounds sustained in an ambush that killed his son.
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