Armed men attacked the border villages of Sankha and Sibithiong in Casamance, southern Senegal, this week and took dozens of cattle, a media source in the Senegalese capital told IRIN on Wednesday.
The source said the attackers seized about three herds of cattle (about 100 head, according to local radio), forced three shepherds to accompany them to the Guinea-Bissau border, freed the three and continued on their way with the cattle.
The incident occurred in the region of Kolda, not far from its administrative capital, Kolda town, where Red Cross officials began on Monday to distribute millet and rice to 3,446 people displaced by similar attacks from border villages.
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