1,000 Muslims Reported Trapped in CAR Town

A medical aid group says nearly 1,000 people, most of them Muslim, are trapped and being threatened by militiamen in the western Central African Republic.Doctors Without Borders says "anti-Balaka" militias recently seized control of Carnot, a town of about 45,000, and are searching for Muslim civilians who are either in hiding or have taken refuge at protected sites.The group, known by its French acronym MSF, says anti-Balaka forces executed seven Muslim men at a house in Carnot...

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