A German military helicopter assigned to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali crashed in the West African nation’s desert north on Wednesday, killing the two crew members, the German military said. BAMAKO (Reuters) - A German military helicopter assigned to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) crashed in the West African nation's desert north on Wednesday, a spokesman for the mission said. Germany has reinforced its presence in Mali this year, deploying several helicopters and raising the number of Germans serving in MINUSMA to 639 as of June. The crash comes two years after two Dutch UN peacekeepers died when their Apache attack helicopter crashed in northern Mali.
A U.N. peacekeeping helicopter crashes during a mission in northern Mali, resulting in the death of two German pilots within.