CONAKRY, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Villagers armed with hunting rifles and machetes clashed over land rights along the Guinea-Mali border, killing at least three people, police and witnesses said on Sunday.

Residents of Dalakan, on the Guinean side, fought with villagers from Siradiouba in Mali in what some locals said appeared to be a revenge attack after clashes in August in which four Guineans, including a baby, were killed.

All of those who died in the latest violence, spread over several days last week, were Malian.

"We don't yet have an exact death toll but for the moment we can give a figure of three to four dead," said a senior Guinean police official who asked not to be named.

Guinea and Mali have good formal relations and share several hundred kilometres (miles) of border but there have been local frontier disputes in the past between groups of subsistence farmers vying for land.

The police official said an evaluation mission had been sent to the region to decide whether any additional security measures needed to be taken.

(Reporting by Saliou Samb, Writing by Nick Tattersall, Editing by Michael Roddy)

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