Over a dozen people were killed in an overnight attack on a Fulani village in central Mali, AFP reported, quoting a UN report.

According to the UN report, armed men on motorbikes, wearing the garb of traditional hunters known as the Dozo, attacked Siba village in the early hours of Thursday morning.

They fired at villagers with hunting rifles and set fire to houses. According to AFP, thirteen men and one girl died in the attack, while two people were wounded and livestock was also stolen.

Since 2015, there has been inter-communal violence in central Mali between the Fulani –traditionally herders — and the Bambara and Dogon ethnic groups, who are mainly farmers.

In March 2019, some 160 Fulani were killed in the village of Ogossagou near the border with Burkina Faso.

Last June, some 35 people of the Dogon ethnic group were killed in the Sobane Da area and about 40 in the villages of Gangafani and Yoro.