{"id":23411,"date":"2018-03-01T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=23411"},"modified":"2018-03-01T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T10:23:56","slug":"four-u-n-peacekeepers-killed-in-central-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/four-u-n-peacekeepers-killed-in-central-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Four U.N. peacekeepers killed in central Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"heading_small\">Mali mission chief Mahamat Saleh Annadif said the peacekeepers hit the device along the Boni-Douentza road in the Mopti region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Four UN peacekeepers from Bangladesh were killed in central Mali on Thursday after their vehicle hit an explosive device and four others were seriously injured, the United Nations said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Mali mission chief Mahamat Saleh Annadif said the peacekeepers hit the device along the Boni-Douentza road in the Mopti region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He said six Malian soldiers were also killed in a similar manner on Wednesday in the Segou region.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the attack against the Bangladeshis and reiterated that attacks targeting UN peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Guterres demanded that the perpetrators be apprehended and prosecuted, he said.The more than 11,000-strong mission in Mali has become the most dangerous in the world for UN peacekeepers, which are routinely attacked by Islamic militants. The threat of groups related to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group continues to spread through Mali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Annadif said the Mali mission is strengthening its security systems in central Mali.\u00a0Guterres said the \u201ccowardly acts\u201d that killed the Bangladeshi and Malian soldiers will not deter the U.N. mission\u2019s \u201cdetermination to support the Malian authorities in their efforts to protect civilians and accompany the Malian people in their quest for peace and stability,\u201d \u00a0Dujarric said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali mission chief Mahamat Saleh Annadif said the peacekeepers hit the device along the Boni-Douentza road in the Mopti region. Four UN peacekeepers from Bangladesh were killed in central Mali on Thursday after their vehicle hit an explosive device and four others were seriously injured, the United Nations said. Mali mission chief Mahamat Saleh Annadif [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23414,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411\/revisions\/23414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}