Mystery beheadings stir fear in remote Mali town

Boubou Sangare, his face blank, points at a patch of ground beneath the entrance to an adobe house. It was here that he discovered his brother Bakary’s severed head, on the morning of June 10, lying next to his body. The 40-year-old former soldier had become the latest victim in a spate of unsolved grisly murders that have plagued the remote town of Fana, in southern Mali, since 2018. Police arrived on the scene 40 minutes after Boubou Sangare…