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Four UN Peacekeepers died in an insurgent attack in Mali
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KIDAL, 3 April, 2021 (TON): In an insurgent attack on the camp in Aguelhok (Northern Mali), four United Nations peacekeepers were killed, the U.N. mission in Mali said on Friday.
Helicopters were dispatched to the scene to evacuate the wounded from camp, the mission said.
The camps in that region houses mostly Chadian peacekeepers.
The U.N. mission said that the attackers suffered heavy losses and had abandoned several of their dead at the site of the attack.
However, it is not wrong to say that Mali has been trying to contain an extremist insurgency since 2012. As the extremist rebels were forced from power in Mali's northern cities with the help of a 2013 French-led military operation, however, the insurgents quickly regrouped in the desert and began launching frequent attacks on the Malian army and its allies fighting the insurgency.
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