A mortar attack on a U.N. base in northern Mali early Saturday killed three people — two peacekeepers and a contractor — and injured 20 others, a spokesman for the nation’s U.N. Mission told CNN.
There has been no claim of responsibility, the spokesman, Olivier Salgado, told CNN by telephone from Bamako, the country’s capital.
An unidentified group launched several mortars on the camp at 4 a.m. local time, Salgado said.
Mali has been wracked by violence in recent years, including an Islamist insurgency, which prompted French forces to intervene in the country in 2013. A separatist Tuareg rebellion has raged in the north.