BAMAKO
— Five United Nations peacekeepers were killed and one other seriously
injured in an ambush in central Mali on Sunday, the United Nations
said.
A
convoy of soldiers in the U.N. Multidimensional Integrated
Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was attacked 30 kilometers (19
miles) west of Sevaré, the U.N. said.
The nationalities of the soldiers were not released and so far no group had taken responsibility for the attack.
It
comes 10 days after five MINUSMA peacekeepers from Chad were killed in
an ambush in the northern region of Kidal. Two days ago five Malian
soldiers were killed near the town of Gao.
"I
condemn in the strongest terms this despicable crime," said MINUSMA
head Mahamat Saleh Annadif, adding that it constituted "crimes against
humanity under international law".
MINUSMA
and French forces have been stationed in northern Mali for three years
since separatists joined jihadists to seize the region from the
government in Bamako.
The
militants have staged a series of high profile attacks in the past
year, mainly in the north of the country, but also in neighboring
Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.
A
peace accord signed last year was meant to bring stability to the
region, but attacks against the U.N. mission, Malian military and
civilians are still frequent.
(Reporting By Adama Diarra and Tiemoko Diallo; writing by Edward McAllister; editing by Gareth Jones)
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