A Jordanian soldier on a peacekeeping mission in Mali has been killed on duty.

Sergeant Jamil Matrouk was killed while taking part in a peacekeeping mission in Mali, the Jordanian official said. Petra reports the news agency.

The Jordanian military said he was pronounced dead at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

He is the second Jordanian soldier killed in Mali this month in a week.

Large swathes of Mali are outside government control following a militant Islamist insurgency that erupted in 2012, before spreading to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.

On June 1, Amman announced the death of Sergeant Ali Al-Jawabra after an attack on peacekeepers in Mali, which injured three other Jordanian soldiers.

Two Egyptian peacekeepers were killed in Mali after a bomb targeted their convoy on Friday.

Jordan deploys approximately 639 military and police personnel to United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world, including in Mali.

Mali has suffered two military coups since August 2020, when the army overthrew elected president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

The junta pledged to return Mali to civilian rule by February 2022, but later extended its timetable, incurring regional sanctions.

Mali is grappling with sanctions imposed by its West African neighbors over its perception of dragging its feet on restoring civilian rule. A second de facto coup took place in May 2021.

The violence that has plagued Mali since 2012 has involved attacks by militants linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, but also an assortment of militias and self-proclaimed bandits.

The conflict has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.