Police say suspected rebels in Senegal have robbed 50 vehicles on a main road in the south of the country.Police commissioner Yakham Thiam says armed men stopped dozens of passing cars Tuesday night in the village of Manpalago. They pillaged money and cellphones before seizing a four-wheel-drive and fleeing toward neighboring Gambia.
Thiam said Wednesday that victims reported the assailants had claimed to be from the main rebel group.
The rebel Movement of the Democratic Forces has waged a low-level insurgency against Senegal's government since 1983.