At Least 3 Dead as Hostage Crisis in Mali Hotel Continues

  20 November 2015    Read: 781
At Least 3 Dead as Hostage Crisis in Mali Hotel Continues
Earlier in the day, several gunmen took 170 people hostages in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali`s capital Bamako. According to French media, at least three people have been killed by the terrorists.
As many as 125 guests and 13 employees of the Radisson Blu hotel are being held hostage in the Malian capital of Bamako by extremists, the hotel operator said in a statement Friday.

“We are closely following the hostage-taking incident that is taking place at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Bamako / Mali today, 20th November 2015. According to our latest information 125 guests and 13 employees are still in the building,” the statement said.

Malian Special Forces started storming the hotel. Paris sent fifty acounter-terrorism specialists to assist them.

The attackers arrived at the scene at the same time with a car with diplomatic plates but were not in it, the Malian authorities said. Earlier some media reported that the hostage takers came in that car.

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