Gunmen attack peacekeepers in Mali

 A peace keeper just reported now that an unidentified gunmen have attacked a base for UN peacekeepers in the northern Mali town of Kidal.

A witness in Kidal also told Reuters that he heard mortar fire as the attack occurred this morning saturday.

The gunmen attacked and fired rockets at a UN peacekeeping base in Kidal in northern Mali today, killing two soldiers and a civilian.

"The attack happened at around 4am , four or five rockets landed inside the base. Quite a few people were wounded but it's too early for a precise number," Olivier Salgado, spokesman of the peacekeeping force in Mali (MINUSMA), told Reuters.