馬裏的聯合國維和部隊一天內兩次遭遇襲擊

The United Nations says gunmen have attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base in the northern Mali city of Timbuktu, killing seven people.

U.N. officials say the dead include five Malian security guards, a gendarme and a Malian contractor working for the U.N. mission.

They say six assailants were also killed by U.N. peacekeepers during the Monday afternoon attack.

The violence follows another attack on Monday in which armed men opened fire on U.N. peacekeepers and Malian troops in the central Malian town of Douentza. One peacekeeper and one Malian soldier were killed in that attack.

No one has claimed responsibility for Monday's violence, however Islamist militants frequently target the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali. More than 100 peacekeepers have been killed in Mali, making it the most deadly of the United Nations' 16 global peacekeeping operations.聯合國說，馬裏中部城市廷巴克圖的一個聯合國維和部隊基地受到槍手襲擊，7人喪生。

聯合國官員說，死者包括5名馬裏保安衛兵，1名憲兵和1名馬裏合同工。

他們說，在星期一下午的襲擊事件中，還有6名襲擊者被聯合國維和部隊打死。

星期一早些時候，武裝人員在馬裏中部城鎮杜安扎對聯合國維和部隊和馬裏部隊開火，造成一名維和人員和一名馬裏士兵喪生。

目前還沒有人出面對星期一的襲擊事件負責，但是伊斯蘭激進分子經常對馬裏的聯合國維和部隊實施攻擊。聯合國在馬裏執行任務的維和人員至今已有100多人喪生，使馬裏成爲聯合國在全球各地16項維和行動中最危險的地方。