At least 13 civilians have been killed in an attack blamed on jihadists against their village in central Mali, local officials said on Friday.
The attack on Kani-Bonzon on Thursday was not far from the border with northern Burkina Faso where at least 70 soldiers and a dozen others have been killed in less than a week in multiple attacks.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for one of those attacks, which killed at least 51 soldiers.
One local official told AFP news agency that the jihadists burned huts and granaries and took three people away with them in Kani-Bonzon.
Another official said locals who were not there at the time are now too scared to return.
Mali has been plunged into a deep security and political crisis since the outbreak of independence and jihadist insurgencies in the north in 2012.
