Militants kill UN peacekeeper in Mali's capital

 BAMAKO

Militants on opened fire on two Bangladeshi
peacekeepers in Mali's Bamako on Monday
the second attack within days in the capital
of what is considered the most dangerous UN
mission in the world.

One of peacekeepers, both ranked as privates
died n the scene and the other was rushed
immediately to hospital with bullet wounds
after the ambush on their SUV, Bangladesh
army spokesman  Nur Islam said tuesday,

It is regularly  targeted by militants in the
north and while attacks in the capital are rare
,Monday 's ambush came just five days after
a militant opened fire on a UN residence in
the city's Faso Kanu neighbourhood.

The unidentified gunman shot and wounded
a civilian guard and hurled two grenades which
failed to explode in the early hours of Wednesday
last week but no troops were hurt.

The country's northern desert has been plagued
by violence by jihadist groups that seized control
of the region from Tuareg rebels before being
routed by a French -led international intervention
that began in 2013.

Despite  elections after the French operation,
the country remains deeply divided and the
north has been an upsurge in attacks by pro-
government militants and the Tuareg -led
rebellion known as the CMA.

The France's defence  ministry announced last
week special forces had killed Amada  Ag Hamao  
,known as "Abdelkrim the Tuareg",who claimed
the kidnapping and murder of two French jurnalists
in Mali 2013.

He was a leader of an Al Qaeda in the Islamic
Magdhreb (AQIM) battalion and a former
lieutenant of Abdelhamid  Abou Zeid ,one of the
AQIM commanders killed fighting the French army
in the northern Mali in February 2013'AFP