BAMAKO: Gunmen have killed at least 134 Fulani herders in central Mali, official said.
According to media reports, this has been the deadliest such attack of recent times in the region.
The gunmen attacked villages of Ogossagou and Welingara as a U.N. Security Council mission visited Mali seeking solutions to violence in the region on Saturday.
Mayor of the nearby town of Bankass, Moulaye Guindo, said armed men dressed as traditional Donzo hunters encircled and then attacked the Ogossagou village, reports said.
He said they were provisionally at 134 bodies recovered by the gendarmes.
According to him, the gunmen also attacked another nearby Fulani village and Welingara. Most of those killed have been women, children and elderly people. (Agencies)
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