More than 100 civilians have been killed in attacks by suspected armed rebels in central Mali, the government has said.
Members of the Katiba Macina armed group assaulted at least three villages in the rural commune of Bankass, in Mali’s central Mopti region, on the night between Saturday and Sunday, the government said in a statement on Monday.
At least 132 civilians were killed and some of the perpetrators have been identified, it added.
It said the civilians were “coldly killed by fighters of the Macina Katiba of Amadou Kouffa”, an organisation affiliated to al-Qaeda.
The killings took place in Diallassagou and two nearby villages, Diaweli and Dessagou, in central Mali, which has long been mired in insecurity.

Al Jazeera’s Barbara Angopa reports.

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