United Nations: A Nigerian peacekeeper was killed Saturday in an attack on the United Nations’ stabilization mission in Mali, the UN said.
The victim “succumbed to his wounds following the armed attack by unidentified assailants” in Timbuktu, a statement said.
A Nigerian peacekeeper was also injured. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “deeply saddened” by the assault, which he said could amount to a war crime.
In a separate incident Saturday, three Chadian peacekeepers were wounded when their mine-protected vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Tessalit, in Mali’s Kidal region.
The UN’s MINUSMA mission was established in Mali after radical Islamist militias seized the north of the country in 2012.
They were pushed back by French troops in 2013. (AFP)
