Unknown assailants kill at least 95 people in ethnic Dogon village overnight, officials say, in latest massacre to destabilise central Mali
A Malian security source at the site of the massacre, in Mali's central Mopti region, said,"A Dogon village has been virtually wiped out."
At least 95 people were killed in an overnight attack on an ethnic Dogon village in central Mali, local officials said on Monday, the latest bout of ethnic violence fuelling the country's security crisis. "Right now we have 95 dead civilians. The bodies are burned. We are continuing to look for others," an official in Koundou district, where the village of Sobane-Kou is located, told AFP news agency.
A Malian security source at the site of the massacre, in Mali's central Mopti region, said, "A Dogon village has been virtually wiped out."There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. But fighting between Dogon hunters and Fulani herders has killed hundreds since January, including a March attack in which gunmen killed more than 150 Dogon, one of the worst acts of violence in the West African country's recent history."Armed men, apparently Fulanis, fired at the population and burnt the village," said Siriam Kanoute, an official for the nearby town of Bandiagara.
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