Three UN peacekeepers have been killed and five others seriously wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) in central Mali.
In a post on social media, the UN mission said one of its convoy had been targeted.
It is one of the UN’s more dangerous deployments, with more than 200 peacekeepers killed during nine-and-a-half years of operations.
Separatists and Islamist militants launch frequent attacks in north and central Mali despite the presence of the UN and, until last year, a French peacekeeping force that was asked to leave the country by the new military government.
