{The French Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two French journalists kidnapped by gunmen in Mali earlier on Saturday have been killed.}<\/p>\n
The bodies of the men, abducted in the northern Malian town of Kidal, were found just outside the town \u2013 a local official, sources from the Tuareg separatist group MNLA and Malian security services told Reuters.<\/p>\n
\u201cA 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,\u201d said Paul-Marie Sidibe, prefect of the town of Tinzawaten, who is based in Kidal. <\/p>\n
The journalists, employees of French radio station Radio France International (RFI), had been interviewing a member of the MNLA shortly before they were taken.<\/p>\n
RFI said it had not heard from the journalists since they were kidnapped.<\/p>\n
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