Death Toll From Mali Attacks Climbs to 160, Government Says
UN Security Council delegation in Bamako, March 23.
Source: United Nations Security Council
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The death toll from attacks on villages in central Mali at the weekend rose to 160, making it one of the deadliest assaults since separatists and Islamist insurgents seized swathes of the nation’s north in 2012.
The latest estimate of casualties was announced by government spokesman Amadou Koita in the capital, Bamako. The government says the March 23 raids on the village of Ogossagou and two other ethnic Fulani settlements were carried out by gunmen dressed as Dozo hunters.