MALI-ATTACKS/KIDAL At least three killed and several injured in north Mali rocket attack

Record ID: 355235

  • Title: MALI-ATTACKS/KIDAL At least three killed and several injured in north Mali rocket attack
  • Date: 8th March 2015
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Tamasheq) RHISSA AG, FATHER OF THE INJURED CHILD, SAYING: "We were sleeping when the rockets fell. Three rockets landed near us and the third fell just outside my house. Two are dead and three injured seriously, including my wife"
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 2015 12:00
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  • Location: Mali
  • Country: Mali
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA9B6DML040OOXG3VMWA22FQ6FI
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
    Unknown attackers fired dozens of rockets towards a U.N. base on the outskirts of the north Malian town of Kidal early on Sunday (March 8), killing at least three people, the United Nations said.
    The incident is the third attack in the West African country this weekend, pointing to ongoing unrest two years after France helped retake the desert north from al Qaeda-linked militants.
    At least one shell fell on a nearby camp for Tuareg and Arab nomads, killing two people and injuring several children, a witness said.
    The father of an injured child, Rhissa Ag, said his wife also sustained serious wounds in the attack.
    "We were sleeping when the rockets fell. Three rockets landed near us and the third fell just outside my house. Two are dead and three injured seriously, including my wife," he said.
    Security sources said that U.N. and French troops who share the base returned fire and sent air support.
    The peacekeeper killed was Chadian, they said, adding that calm had been restored.
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