Gunmen killed about 15 people, including children, in an attack on a town in the Central African Republic near the border with Chad, a local official and aid workers said Friday.
The raid in the town of Markounda on Thursday was about 18 miles from the site of an attack on a health clinic run by the medical group Doctors Without Borders last week that killed 16 people.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attacks. Mainly Muslim rebel forces seized the capital, Bangui, in March 2013, setting off a wave of killing and looting that prompted the Christian majority to form self-defense militias.
Despite the presence of French and African peacekeepers, thousands have died in inter-communal violence in the country, a former French colony, and close to a million have been displaced.
