Three UN peacekeepers and 30 others were injured on Friday following an attack of a base in Kidal, northern Mali.
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“There is gunfire and mortar fire against the MINUSMA (U.N. peacemaking mission) camp”.
Suspected Islamists struck the base in Kidal early on Friday, three months after a deadly attack on a hotel in capital Bamako left 20 people dead.
The source said a vehicle “carrying suicide bombers entered the camp shortly the assailants fired rockets”.
“This serious act reflects the disarray of the enemies of peace since it comes at a time when the implementation of the Peace Agreement increasingly becomes a reality in Mali”, Annadif said, in a statement.
A Guinean member of the United Nations force told AFP the dead soldiers were from his country’s contingent, adding that seven of the wounded men were “in a serious condition”.
Guinea’s defense ministry said the attack targeted a Guinea position in Kidal but said its soldiers remained committed to the peacekeeping mission there.
On Thursday, a customs officer and two civilians were killed in another Islamist strike in the northern town of Hombori, two days after three Malian soldiers died in an explosion while they were patrolling the frontier near Burkina Faso.
Suspected Islamic militants launched an attack on United Nations peacekeepers base in Mali, killing two people and wounding 30 others.
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Several terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Malian chief prosecutor said in January that Al-Mourabitoun – led by veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar-was likely behind the assault.
