Scores of villagers murdered in Mali village massacre
Scores of villagers murdered in Mali village massacre
At least 95 people in Mali have been murdered in a massacre by suspected Fulani militants.
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Mali has been hit by ethnic massacres [Getty]
Nearly a hundred people were murdered in a massacre at a central Mali village on Sunday night, in the latest tit-for-tat ethnic killings to hit the Sahel country.
The village was inhabited by members of the Dogon community when gunmen opened fire and killed at least 96 civilians in an overnight attack
"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.
A Malian security source at the site of the massacre said "a Dogon village has been virtually wiped out".
The attackers entered the village of around 300 inhabitants and "started shooting, pillaging and burning", an official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
There have been a number of massacres between the Fulani, and Dogon and Bambara ethnic groups.
On May 16, the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said there had been "at least 488 deaths" in attacks on Fulanis in the central regions of Mopti and Segou since January 2018.
Fulanis had "caused 63 deaths" among civilians in the Mopti region since that date, the UN added.
In one of the bloodiest raids, around 160 Fulani villagers were murdered in March at Ogossagou, near the border with Burkina Faso, by suspected Dogon hunters.
MINUSMA said that, also since January 2018, armed Fulanis had "caused 63 deaths" among civilians in the Mopti region.
Jihadi preacher, Amadou Koufa, led a group of Fulani and joined the Al-Qaeda-linked Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), headed by Iyad Ag Ghaly.
The village was inhabited by members of the Dogon community when gunmen opened fire and killed at least 96 civilians in an overnight attack
"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.
A Malian security source at the site of the massacre said "a Dogon village has been virtually wiped out".
The attackers entered the village of around 300 inhabitants and "started shooting, pillaging and burning", an official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
There have been a number of massacres between the Fulani, and Dogon and Bambara ethnic groups.
On May 16, the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said there had been "at least 488 deaths" in attacks on Fulanis in the central regions of Mopti and Segou since January 2018.
Fulanis had "caused 63 deaths" among civilians in the Mopti region since that date, the UN added.
In one of the bloodiest raids, around 160 Fulani villagers were murdered in March at Ogossagou, near the border with Burkina Faso, by suspected Dogon hunters.
MINUSMA said that, also since January 2018, armed Fulanis had "caused 63 deaths" among civilians in the Mopti region.
Jihadi preacher, Amadou Koufa, led a group of Fulani and joined the Al-Qaeda-linked Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), headed by Iyad Ag Ghaly.
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