{"id":1262,"date":"2015-04-15T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T20:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2015-04-15T20:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T20:04:51","slug":"three-killed-in-suicide-attack-on-peacekeepers-in-mali-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/04\/15\/three-killed-in-suicide-attack-on-peacekeepers-in-mali-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Three killed in suicide attack on peacekeepers in Mali: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber attacked a UN barracks in northern Mali on Wednesday, the United Nations said, killing three civilians and wounding 16 people, including several peacekeepers.<br \/>\nThe militant was attempting to drive into a camp used by the UN&#8217;s MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in Ansongo, in the northern region of Gao, when the explosives went off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attack left nine injured, two seriously, among the peacekeepers from the Niger contingent. In addition, the explosion has killed at least three civilians. Seven (civilians) were also injured,&#8221; MINUSMA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The mission did not specify if the bomber was acting alone or if there were others in the vehicle but its head, Mongi Hamdi, condemned the &#8220;cowardly and odious&#8221; attack.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am shocked that valiant peacekeepers are again being targeted, as well as innocent civilians,&#8221; he was quoted as saying.<br \/>\nAFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber attacked a UN barracks in northern Mali on Wednesday, the United Nations said, killing three civilians and wounding 16 people, including several peacekeepers. The militant was attempting to drive into a camp used by the UN&#8217;s MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in Ansongo, in the northern region of Gao, when the explosives went off. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}