“They fired rockets from around 4:00am inside the MINUSMA camp”, Olivier Salgado, deputy chief of communication in the peacekeeping mission, said.
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Another U.N. source told AFP news agency that 14 others were injured in the attack.
The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine has reportedly claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a United Nations peacekeeping base in northern Mali.
The attack, which saw 170 guests and staff taken hostage, has already been claimed by The al Qaeda-linked group Al Murabitoun.
Up to five rockets landed inside the base.
Northern Mali was occupied by fighters, some with links to al-Qaeda, for most of 2012.
SKOPJE – Macedonia’s interior ministry says 18 police officers were injured in a clash with a group of stranded migrants on the country’s southern border with Greece. There are competing claims of responsibility for that attack by extremist groups.
The two peacekeeper soldiers are understood to be from Guinea, although their identities are not known.
At least two armed men stormed the luxury Radisson Blu hotel on 20 November, killing six Russians, three Chinese nationals, an American and several others.
Even after the French-led military intervention in early 2013 that forced the extremists from northern towns and cities, the north remains insecure and militant attacks have extended farther south this year, including the capital.
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Mali is now in the process of restoring democracy with the help of the United Nations and African regional bodies, including the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In 2015, it has broadened the scope of its attacks from Nigeria into the neighbouring nations of Niger, Cameroon and Chad.
