In another incident on Wednesday, an attack on villages of the Dogon ethnic group in the south of country claimed at least two lives, with several others wounded, a local official and a Malian security source said.
BAMAKO - A massacre at a village in central Mali left 35 dead, the authorities said on Wednesday, a final toll much lower than the earlier estimate of 95 killed.
The killings stirred fears of tit-for-tat violence in the region, an ethnic patchwork where tensions have soared since the emergence of a violent jihadist-led movement in 2015.That toll was based on early information from soldiers and the district mayor who visited the village, which is also known as Sobane-Kou.
About a hundred women had succeeded in fleeing to the village of Koundo, and this was one of the causes of the confusion, it said. Armed Fulanis "caused 63 deaths" among civilians in the Mopti region over the same timespan, it said. "The militias, rightly or wrongly, were created to respond to a need for security among people who no longer have any trust, or very little, in the effectiveness of the institutional responses," said Baba Dakono of the Institute for Security Studies , a think tank in Bamako.
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