Off the wire
• Urgent: UN Security Council slams deadly terrorist attack in Mali  • Nigerian political parties approve use of card reader for polls  • Israeli PM says his 2009 two-state speech "no longer relevant"  • Algeria to host Libyan peace talks  • European Commission president calls for creation of EU army  • Sympathy labor action strands passengers in Finland  • Solar plane to start world tour Monday  • Somalia lauds U.S for delisting ex-Al-Shabaab intelligence chief  • India's French ambassador appointed as new envoy to U.S.  • 2nd LD Writethru: Indian passenger plane skids off runway due to heavy rain, all aboard safe  
You are here: 　 Home

1st LD: UN Security Council slams deadly terrorist attack in Mali

Xinhua, March 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

The UN Security Council on Sunday condemned "in the strongest terms" a terrorist attack against a UN peacekeeping camp in Mali, calling upon the Malian government to conduct a swift investigation in order to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The members of the Security Council "condemned in the strongest terms the coordinated attacks against" a United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in Kidal, Mali, earlier on Sunday, resulting in the death of two children and of one Chadian peacekeeper of MINUSMA, and many injured, said a statement issued by the 15-nation council to the press here.

Dozens of rockets and shells were fired toward the UN camp just outside the desert town early on Sunday, and at least one of them fell on a Tuareg camp, Radhia Achouri, reports said.

The attack near Kidal came just a day after an attack on a restaurant in Bamako, the capital of Mali, killed five people, including a French citizen and a Belgian security officer with the European Union delegation in Mali. Endite