BAMAKO | Sat Nov 2, 2013 12:52pm EDT
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Two French journalists snatched by gunmen in the northern Malian town of Kidal on Saturday have been killed, a local prefect, sources from the Tuareg separatist group MNLA and Malian security services told Reuters.
"A few minutes after a pursuit began for the abductors of the two French, we were informed that their bodies were found riddled with bullets outside the town," said Paul-Marie Sidibe, prefect of the town of Tinzawaten, who is based in Kidal.
A senior MNLA military official also said the bodies had been recovered outside Kidal. A Mali security source said the journalists were killed about 12 km (8 miles) outside the town.
(Reporting by Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra in Bamako, and Laurent Prieur in Nouakchott; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Daniel Flynn and Sonya Hepinstall)
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Two French journalists snatched by gunmen in the northern Malian town of Kidal on Saturday have been killed, a local prefect, sources from the Tuareg separatist group MNLA and Malian security services told Reuters.
"A few minutes after a pursuit began for the abductors of the two French, we were informed that their bodies were found riddled with bullets outside the town," said Paul-Marie Sidibe, prefect of the town of Tinzawaten, who is based in Kidal.
A senior MNLA military official also said the bodies had been recovered outside Kidal. A Mali security source said the journalists were killed about 12 km (8 miles) outside the town.
(Reporting by Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra in Bamako, and Laurent Prieur in Nouakchott; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Daniel Flynn and Sonya Hepinstall)