Central African Republic: At least 23 people killed in fighting in Kaga Bandoro
Fighters from Central African Republic’s largely Muslim Seleka militia attacked refugees in the country’s remote north on Wednesday, stabbing or hacking to death 13 people before U.N. peacekeepers repelled them, killing at least 10, officials said.
Several people were also wounded in the attack targeting the Kaga Bandoro, a town of dirt roads and thatched mud huts. A Reuters witness saw militiamen stab two refugees to death as people were fleeing. When some tried to fight back with clubs, the militiamen began firing their guns.
Hundreds of panicked villagers, already refugees from earlier violence, then fled in the direction of the U.N. base.
Central African Republic has been in chaos since early 2013 when the Seleka, which draws mostly from the country’s minority Muslim population, toppled then-President Francois Bozize.