![]() ![]() The defence force had recently been set up by local people following a string of attacks on farm workers in remote fields by highly mobile jihadists, a former mayor said. The assailants headed off back to Mali "taking the bodies of their fighters with them", the source said. ![]() Local sources said earlier that a motorcycle-borne defence force was attacked by "heavily armed members of the ISGS (Islamic State in the Greater Sahara," who were also on motorbikes.Īnother source said the target of the attack was a local anti-jihadist defence force called the Vigilance Committees, which was headed by the mayor of Banibangou district. The government declared two days of national morning from Friday. ![]() is 69 dead, including the mayor, and 15 survivors," it said.Ī search was under way for the attackers.
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