Sharjah 24 – AFP: At least 16 people were killed in two midweek attacks in northeastern Mali by suspected terrorists on encampments of nomadic tribesmen, local sources said on Sunday.
"The killings took place in the evening between Wednesday and Thursday with the same modus operandi: assailants on motorbikes who came into the camp, shot at people indiscriminately from close range, then take away their livestock," said a source close to the authorities in Menaka, the region near the Niger border where the attacks happened.
A first attack targeted a nomadic camp about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the region's capital, also called Menaka. Twelve people were killed.
In the other attacked "armed men" targeted another camp at Inekar Tadriante, killing five, the source added.
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