Freetown - Rebels in Sierra Leone attacked a village near the northern border with Guinea on Saturday, killing 16 people with guns and machetes and abducting at least 50 others, police, aid workers and church sources said yesterday.
"More than 100 rebels armed with guns and machetes attacked the village of Kamaporoto from one of their bases near the Guinea border in search of food and young boys and girls to fight with them", said a police officer. They beheaded some of their victims.