Nearly 100 people were killed in a gruesome overnight attack on a village in central Mali, officials said on 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 weeks after nearly 160 members of the Fulani ethnic group were slaughtered by a group identified as Dogon. “Right now we have 95 dead civilians. The bodies are burned, we are continuing to look for others,” said an official in Koundou district.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2019 16:31 UTC