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Militants kill UN soldier in Mali's capital: security sources

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AFP Bamako
Militants opened fire on two Bangladeshi United Nations peacekeepers in Mali's capital Bamako, killing one and wounding the other, security sources said.

"Armed men that we have not yet identified shot at two peacekeepers who were on board a UN vehicle yesterday night. One of them was killed and the other seriously wounded," a Malian security source told AFP.

A source from MINUSMA, the UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali, told AFP the two UN soldiers were Bangladeshi.

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First Published: May 26 2015 | 12:32 PM IST

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