MALI / KIDAL ATTACK

Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed and 30 more were wounded Friday in an attack on a UN compound in Kidal, northern Mali. MINUSMA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:59
• Production Date: 15 February 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN MALI - MINUSMA
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPERS; TERRORISM
• Geographic Subject: MALI
• MAMS Id: 1564223
• Parent Id: 1564223
• Alternate Title: unifeed160215d

Description

STORY: MALI / KIDAL ATTACK
TRT: 00:59
SOURCE: MINUSMA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 13 FEBRUARY 2016, KIDAL, MALI

Shotlist

1. Pan right, soldiers clearing up rubble
2. Wide shot, soldiers standing on top of a container
3. Wide shot, group standing in the rubble
4. Tilt up, from destroyed equipment to delegation
5. Med shot, rubble
6. Close up, part of a rocket
7. Med shot, rocket
8. Wide shot, military compound
9. Wide shot, UN armed vehicle behind barbwire
10. Zoom out, soldiers on the truck bed through barbwire

Storyline

Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed and 30 more were wounded Friday in an attack on a UN compound in Kidal, northern Mali.

On Friday (12 Feb) at 7 am, the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in the northern region of the country was the target of a “complex attack.”

The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Mali, Mohamed Saleh Annadif, and the MINUSMA Force Commander, General Michael Lollesgaard, visited the base in Kidal on Saturday, a day after the attack.

According to news reports, a jihadist group Ansar Dine allegedly said it carried out an attack.

Militants reportedly used a vehicle packed with explosives to attack the base, before attacking it with mortar and machine gunfire.

All seven peacekeepers killed were from Guinean contingent.