Nearly 100 Killed, 19 Missing in Central Mali Village Massacre
Nearly 100 Killed, 19 Missing in Central Mali Village Massacre by Serge Daniel and Kassim Traore – Agence France-Presse
Bamako (AFP) – Nearly 100 people were killed in a gruesome overnight attack on a village in central Mali, in the latest violence to strike the fragile region, authorities said Monday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the massacre, targeting a village inhabited by the Dogon community, bore the hallmarks of tit-for-tat ethnic attacks that have claimed hundreds of lives.
It came less than three months after nearly 160 members of the Fulani ethnic group were slaughtered by a group identified as Dogon…