20 UN peacekeepers injured in Mali attack

Twenty United Nations peacekeepers were injured in an attack on their base in central Mali on Wednesday, a UN spokesperson said.

Some of them have sustained serious injuries.

The base near the town of Douentza was attacked around 0700 GMT, a spokesman for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) mission, Olivier Salgado, told Reuters.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.

(Cover: U.N. peacekeepers stand guard in the northern town of Kouroume, Mali, May 13, 2015. /Reuters)