1st LD: UN chief slams deadly attack on UN camp in Mali as "intolerable" crime
Xinhua, March 9, 2015 Adjust font size:
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday strongly condemned a deadly terrorist attack on a UN peacekeeping camp outside a desert town in northern Mali, saying that "the killing of UN peacekeepers and civilian Malians is intolerable and a breach of international humanitarian law."
"The secretary-general condemns in the strongest terms today's attack in Mali that killed two Malian children and a Chadian UN peacekeeper and injured 11 peacekeepers and three civilians," said a statement issued here on Sunday night by Ban's spokesman.
The deadly mortar and rocket fire on a camp of the United Nations Multinational Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Kidal, a desert town in northern Mali, resulted in at least four shells landing inside the camp and on a civilian dwelling outside the camp.
The attack near Kidal came just a day after another attack on a restaurant in Bamako, the capital of Mali, which had killed five people, including a French citizen and a Belgian security officer with the European Union delegation in Mali. Endi