REUTERS – Unknown assailants attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base and a Malian army checkpoint on the outskirts of Mali’s northern city of Timbuktu early on Friday, residents and military sources said.
U.N. peacekeeping base and a Malian army checkpoint attacked in northern city of Timbuktu by unknown assailants.
Bodies lay on the ground near the U.N. compound, where Nigerian forces are based, a resident said. Gunfire continued to ring out from the base.
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