A group headed by former al Qaeda fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility for a suicide raid on U.N. peacekeepers in northern Mali in which at least three people were killed.
Mauritanian news website Alakhbar posted an audio statement claiming the attack on behalf of the armed Islamist
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