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                 UN Peacekeeping Base Attacked in Northern Mali

   by VOA News

   Suspected Islamic militants attacked a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the
   northern Mali town of Kidal Friday, killing at least two people and
   wounding several others.

   Reports from the area said there was gunfire and mortar fire against
   the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSMA, in Kidal on Friday.

   A source from the peacekeeping mission told the French news agency,
   AFP, that two peacekeepers had been killed in the attack.

   A Guinean member of the U.N. force told the news agency that the dead
   peacekeepers were from Guinea.

   The attack came just a week after U.N. peacekeepers and Malian forces
   retook a police base in Timbuktu that was briefly seized by unknown
   assailants.

   There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

   Northern Mali has been wracked with violence in recent years, including
   insurgencies by Islamist militant groups and ethnic Tuareg militias.

   The U.N. established its peacekeeping force in Mali in 2013.
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