UNITED NATIONS, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - After a landmine explosion hit a UN vehicle in Mali, killing one and injuring four, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the attack will not stop the peacekeeping mission in the country.
"The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the death of one Chadian peacekeeper following an attack on a military vehicle of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), which took place in the vicinity of Aguelhok, Kidal Region, earlier today. Four other peacekeepers were wounded during this incident," the UN said in a statement.
"The Secretary-General strongly condemns this attack, which follows another attack in the Kidal Region on 2 September that killed four peacekeepers and wounded 14 others," the UN said.
In the fact of these attacks, Ban said on Sunday they "will not alter the determination of the United Nations to support the Malian people in their search for peace."
Back on August 16, Ban condemned the killing by a suicide bomber of two UN peacekeepers and the injuring of at least seven others in a suicide attack in Ber in Mali's Timbuktu region.
In June in Aguelhok also in northern Mali, four UN peacekeepers were killed.
