Two UN peacekeepers killed in Mali suicide attack

Two United Nations peacekeepers, from Burkina Faso, were killed in a suicide car bombing in northern Mali on Saturday, the UN and Mali security sources said. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was ‘deeply saddened’ by the deaths and the wounding of at least seven other peacekeepers in Ber, a village in Mali’s Timbuktu region. ‘Jihadists carried out a car bombing at the MINUSMA (United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali) camp in Ber on Saturday,’ a Mali security source said. One of the peacekeepers died immediately, and another succumbed later to injuries he received during the attack, a MINUSMA source said. The car carrying the bomb entered the camp ‘at high speed... there was a huge explosion,’ the source added, according to AFP.