Two police officers from the United Nations mission in Mali, including a woman, were killed on Friday December 16 in an attack on their patrol in Timbuktu, the mission announced on Twitter.
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Deeply shocked by the murder this afternoon, in Timbuktu, by an unidentified armed individual, of two of our police officers, including a woman, while they were on patrol
,” El-Ghassim Wane said on Twitter. head of Minusma.
Four other peacekeepers were injured, one of them seriously, according to the mission.