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Attack in central Mali sign of spreading extremist violence

A Malian soldier runs for cover as he fights after clashes erupted in the city of Gao in 2013. The hotel attack was the third assault in just a week in Mali, which is still struggling to restore stability despite a landmark peace deal agreed in June
Clash of the historic peace treaty in 2013, Gao agreed in June despite still struggling for stability, which is the third attack against a hotel in Mali just one week, broke out in Mali, where he encountered the soldier, while (AFP / Frederic Lafarge)

Bamako, Mali (CNN) - 10 people were killed, and the spread of jihadist attacks and the government army and UN peacekeepers, which are displayed in a more direct hit in the first attack by Islamic extremists in central Mali, an expert said on Saturday.

Three of the attackers were also killed, and arrested seven suspected militants. It was recovered four UN personnel.

The UN press additional staff because of lack of authorization to speak to the UN official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the cause is still missing.

Sevare militants targeted the military camp on Friday, but face resistance Byblos Hotel is popular with the UN personnel on the move before the attack in a hotel near the depot, and to take prisoners, according to a UN official in Mali, a government report said.

Sevare, 600 kilometers (375 miles) north-east of the capital Bamako in a garrison town, is the heart of the tourism industry in Mali and attacks in the northern city of Timbuktu, Gao and are more common in the not targeted.

"It's armed Islamist groups in Mali and the United Nations to step up pressure on both the government and the French presence is a sign of concern," Bruce Whitehouse, said financial expert and associate professor at Lehigh University. "They just do not want to respond, and they are stronger in the north, where the primary is not afraid to face the enemy."

White House ", it is not the government or the UN can keep them safe throughout the economy, both refer to" the possibility of attack was meant to, but he pointed to react quickly to economic forces.

Colonel Suleiman Maiga, the chief military spokesman Amadou attackers Cova, Nampala 10 soldiers were killed in January in Mali, including the attack on the military might of the followers of a leader who has been associated with the attacks.

UN spokeswoman Radhia Achouri health workers in Mali, the United Nations mission in South Africa, and the Russian and Ukrainian recovered from four to two.

"Construction of the hotel at which they were discovered alive by terrorists," he rescue by special forces during the operation on Saturday was not much resistance, he added.

In a statement later Saturday, the UN mission in the five contractors driver, Mali, Nepal, South Africa and Ukraine, including two killed in Mali said. The Bamako agency said...

Hotel workers previously considered - - army spokesman Colonel Maiga stressed this Friday and Saturday morning, five people were found dead after the operation.

He also killed a total of 13 people from five Malian soldiers and three of the attackers.

Nelson Kgwete, South Africa's foreign ministry spokesman, Twitter, age 38 years, working in South Africa in Mali to help UN forces, which had been killed in an attack aviation company.

The remnants of the extremist Islamic extremists have launched attacks on the United Nations peacekeeping forces and the forces of Mali in early 2013 drove them from the city in 2012, took a French-led offensive in northern Mali.

Jihadist groups are stepping up their attacks in southern Mali. Incognito gunman killed five people, a restaurant popular with foreigners, fired by extremist attacks in the capital in March to sign.

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