Gunmen kill 15 in raid on Central African Republic border town


  • World
  • Friday, 02 May 2014

BANGUI (Reuters) - Gunmen killed about 15 people, including children, in an attack on a town in Central African Republic near the border with Chad, a local official and aid workers said on Friday.

The raid in the town of Markounda on Thursday was about 30 km (18 miles) from the site of an attack on a health clinic run by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres last week which killed 16 people.

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