Two peacekeepers with United Nations (UN) forces in Mali have been killed in an attack on their convoy.
Their convoy came under attack in the north of Mali, the U.N. mission in Mali said on Sunday.
The UN statement said the logistics convoy was on a halt on the Tessalit – Gao road when unidentified armed individuals attacked it.
The two peacekeepers did not survive the attack, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, U.N. mission chief in Mali said in the statement.
Just last week armed men dressed in military fatigues also attacked a village of Fulani herders in central Mali.
They killed at least 20 people in that attack targeted at the village of Binedama in the Mopti region, which has seen dozens of tit-for-tat ethnic massacres over the past few years.
Mali has been in crisis since 2012 when al Qaeda-linked militants seized its desert north.
French forces intervened the following year to drive them back, but the militants have since regrouped and extended their operations into neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
Source: Africafeeds.com
