“Horrible news, another in the long line of colleagues who lost their lives while serving in Mali,” wrote El-Ghassim Wane, head of the UN operation Minusma in Mali, on Twitter.
According to a source to AFP, the soldier belonged to the Guinean group in Minusma and died according to information from his injuries at the hospital in Kidal.
No later than June 4, two Egyptian Minusma soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb, three days before a soldier was killed in an attack on a convoy.
The UN has around 13,000 soldiers in Mali through the operation Minusma, among them Swedes. The peacekeeping force is one of the largest in the UN and is considered one of the most dangerous. To date, 175 UN soldiers have been killed in attacks since Minsuma was formed in 2013.