{The French Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two French journalists kidnapped by gunmen in Mali earlier on Saturday have been killed.}
The bodies of the men, abducted in the northern Malian town of Kidal, were found just outside the town – a local official, 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.
The journalists, employees of French radio station Radio France International (RFI), had been interviewing a member of the MNLA shortly before they were taken.
RFI said it had not heard from the journalists since they were kidnapped.
Euronews
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