Suspected jihadists killed more than 30 Tuaregs, including women and children, on Mali’s northeastern border with Niger, several sources said Saturday as the second such attack in two days stoked fears of widespread unrest.
The former Tuareg rebel group MSA and tribal leaders said the massacre occurred Friday, a day after another attack by gunmen on motorbikes had left 12 people dead outside the town of Anderamboukane, which is also in the same area.
“There have been 43 deaths in two days, all civilians, from the same community,” tribal leader Sidigui Ag Hamadi told AFP from the regional capital Menaka.
“Our fighters are destroying their bases and wiping them out. They are targeting innocent civilians,” he added, saying he viewed the bloodletting as a reprisal for attacks on jihadists by armed Tuareg groups.
The MSA also put the death toll from the two attacks in the…
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