Landmine Kills 4 UN Soldiers in Northern Mali

Four United Nations soldiers were killed on Tuesday and another 15 were wounded when the convoy they were traveling in struck a landmine in northern Mali, a spokesman for the country's U.N. peacekeeping mission said. The contingent had left a U.N. base in the town of Aguelhok and were traveling south when the incident occurred at around noon local time (1200 GMT), some 30 km north of Kidal, the spokesman said. He had earlier said the convoy was traveling north from Kidal when it...

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