(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Six UN peacekeepers were injured in explosions hitting their
convoy and are being treated in Sevare, Mali, said a UN spokeswoman
on Monday, reports citing .
The blue helmets from Togo were injured after their convoy was
hit by two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the Douentza
region in the Dangol Bore commune, said Stephanie Tremblay, an
associate spokeswoman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Two armored vehicles in the convoy were damaged.
'The rest of the convoy arrived in Mopti yesterday (Sunday)
evening with no further incident reported,' Tremblay said.
In a tweet over the weekend, the head of the UN peacekeeping
mission in Mali, El-Ghassim Wane, noted that the incidents
illustrate the ever-present threat of IEDs but would not weaken the
resolve of the UN mission, known as MINUSMA, to continue protecting
the population.
The mission was established to help stabilize one of the least
developed countries in the world on the edge of the Sahara Desert,
troubled by political instability and attacks by extremists in the
Sahel.
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