Reuters —Unidentified armed men have killed around 40 people in an attack on a village in insurgent-plagued central Mali, local officials said on Tuesday.
“It was a very serious attack, armed men surrounded the village and shot at people,” said Bankass Mayor Moulaye Guindo by phone.
He was not able to share a death toll, but two local officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said around 40 people were killed.
Violence has spiraled in West Africa’s central Sahel region since the insurgencies took root in Mali and spread into neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger, killing thousands of people and displacing millions more.
The insecurity has helped spur two coups in Mali, one in Burkina Faso, and one in Niger since 2020.
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