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Three people were killed and 12 wounded in a rocket attack early Sunday on a U.N. base in Mali's northeastern city of Kidal.
    More than 30 rockets hit the U.N. base in Kidal at about 5:40 a.m. Sunday. The attack killed a U.N. soldier and two civilians and an another 12 people were wounded, said the U.N.
    The U.N. forces returned fire at about 6 a.m. It said the rocket attack was launched from a spot about 1.2 miles from the camp.
    The attack was not immediately claimed but the Islamic extremist group Ansar Dine claimed a similar attack against U.N. peacekeepers in Kidal in September 2014.
    The rocket attack on the U.N. camp in Kidal comes a day after Islamic extremists attacked a restaurant in the capital, Bamako, killing five people, including a French person and a Belgian. Bamako is about 930 miles southwest of Kidal. In addition to those killed, nine people were wounded including two experts for the U.N. The two are Swiss soldiers and were flown to Senegal for treatment.
    In 2012 Islamic extremists took control of northern Mali with the aim of imposing Shariah law in the country.

 

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