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Mali

2 UN peacekeepers and 1 civilian killed

Two United Nations peacekeepers and a civilian contractor were killed on Saturday in a rocket attack on a UN base claimed by the jihadist Ansar Dine group, which the Security Council warned could be a war crime. Some 20 people were also wounded in the pre-dawn attack on the camp in Kidal. The attack comes a week after a deadly siege at a Bamako hotel. The dead included two Guinean peacekeepers and a contractor from Burkina Faso, the UN said.