2 peacekeepers killed, 4 wounded in attack in Mali, UN says

Two U.N. peacekeepers from Nigeria were killed and four others wounded in an attack Friday on a peace patrol in the town of Timbuktu in northern Mali, the United Nations said.
The U.N. Security Council said a member of Mali’s security forces was also killed in the attack.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said one of the peacekeepers killed was a woman. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Security Council strongly condemned the attack.
The council stressed that involvement in planning, directing, sponsoring or conducting attacks targeting U.N. peacekeepers may constitute war crimes.
Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising when mutinous soldiers overthrew the president. The power vacuum that resulted ultimately led to a jihadist insurgency and a French-led war that ousted the jihadists from power in 2013.