MINUSMA said on Twitter that a "complex attack" involving an improvised bomb and direct fire targeted a patrol near the town of Ber.
The nationalities of the victims were not specified.
Mali has been grappling with a political and security crisis since 2012 when separatist and jihadist rebellions broke out in the north, later spreading to neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
Rebels affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group claim responsibility for many attacks, but self-proclaimed defence groups and bandidos also contribute to the violence in the region.
MINUSMA is a common target for jihadists as an international force and symbol of state authority with around 12,000 soldiers deployed in Mali.
Since its creation in 2013, 186 of its members have died in hostile circumstances.
Anger at the government's failure to beat back the gunnies fuelled a coup in 2020 that brought the country's ruling military junta to power.
But large swathes of the vast country remain outside state control and attacks on national and international security forces continue.
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