Mali Hotel Attacks: Mali Attack On The Hotel Kills At Least 27 Among US Citizen

Mali attack on the hotel kills at least 27

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including American citizens - - the provision of at least 27 people the day after 170 people were taken hostage at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali in West Africa, according to the United Nations.
The attack carried out by at least three people, began this morning in Mali's capital Bamako, with gunmen storm the building. An official at the US Department of Defense crisis is over.
According to a family member, and killed American and Anita Datar, 41. He said a family member was in Mali "doing what she loved - the promotion of public health."

Mali security forces to help hostage, in the middle, to get away from the Radisson Blu Hotel after gunmen attacked a hotel in Bamako, Mali, Friday.Adjust heavily armed Islamic extremists dozens of hostages Friday at the Radisson hotel, but financial forces, backed by the US and French special forces, have been gathered in regaining control of the building and many of the prisoners free horrified. He said Mali military commander said at least 27 people were killed along with two militants during more than seven-hour siege.An extremist group led by former Al-Qaeda leader Mukhtar Belmoktar claimed responsibility for the attack in the former French colony, and many in France they considered a new offensive against the interests of their country after a week of attacks Paris.Among the visiting guests from Canada, France, Belgium, Germany, China, India, Ivory Coast and Turkey. The three Quebec between the freed hostages from the hotel.

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Many of the foreigners in the city for a couple of events held by the Francophonie.Said Michaëlle Jean, former Governor General of Canada current Secretary-General of la Francophonie, she was scheduled to arrive Saturday. She called it a very difficult day, and said that 80 countries in the Francophonie must work together in the fight against extremism.Minister of Foreign Affairs issued Stefan Minister for International Development and the Francophonie Marie-Claude Bibeau debt joint statement, saying that all Canadians known to have been in the hotel safe."These acts of indiscriminate violence against innocent civilians is unacceptable and is to be condemned," the statement said.

France stands with Mali:While French President Francois Hollande did not link the violence at the Radisson Blu Hotel with bloodshed in the past week in Paris, he announced that France would stand by the state, located in West Africa."Once again, the terrorists want to make their presence felt in the brutal everywhere, where it can kill, where they can massacre. So we must again show our solidarity with our ally Mali," he said.Shooting continued throughout the day in the hotel, which is popular among flight crews and other foreigners doing business in the capital, Bamako, is that the shooting stop after dark.Officials in Mali holds the body outside the Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali. An extremist group and announced its headquarters in the north of the desert former French colony, claimed responsibility for the attack. (Joe Penny / Reuters)Officials have not confirmed that the entire complex has been secured by nightfall, despite the fact that the only activity was a firefighter carrying the bodies to waiting ambulances.State television said in Mali in late Friday night that the government had declared a state of 10 days from the beginning of emergency in the middle of the night, as well as a three-day period of national mourning from Monday.Commander of the Army. He said Modibo Traore Nama Friday night that 27people were killed, including the officer in the gendarmerie in Mali. In addition, he said, and wounded five people, including two police officers.He said that although Traore said earlier also participated up to 10 attackers on Friday night that there may be only two of the gunmen, and both were killed. A police officer at the hotel display images of two dead militants, their bodies riddled with bullets.The siege began when the attackers shouting "God!" Traore said earlier on Friday in the Arab burst into the compound and opened fire on the hotel guards. He said the employee, who identified himself as Tampa Diarra by phone the center of the attack, which the militants used grenades.I took about 170 guests and staff at the beginning of the hostages, but it seems that some fled or hid in the sprawling, cream, pink Hotel has 190 rooms, a spa and swimming pool in the open air, and a ballroom.

The intention was clearly to kill:"It was more like a real terrorist attack," said a spokesman for the UN mission Olivier Salgado. "It was clear intent to kill, do not necessarily have people being hostages."Traore said 126 people were escorted to safety, said a guest at least one of the attackers asked him to recite verses from the Koran as evidence of Islamic religion before allowing him to leave.As people rushed to their lives along the dirt road, she pointed soldier in full combat gear, the way to safety, to accompany them sometimes with a protective arm around the shoulder. Local television showed heavily armed forces in what appears to be the lobby of the hotel.


Said Monique Kwame Affoue Ekonde from the Ivory Coast are six other people, including a Turkish woman, was to get them out by the security forces and gunmen rushed towards the fifth or sixth floor. Ekonde and said she was "in a state of shock."Traore said the special forces went in Mali "for each floor" to free the hostages.Said Colonel Mark Cheadle for the leadership of Africa in the US army and US special forces have helped. Cheadle said six Americans were evacuated at least from the hotel. US officials are trying to verify the location of all US citizens in Mali.The speaker praised the National Security Council spokesman Ned Price Mali courage, and members of French security of the United Nations and the United States who responded, adding that Washington was ready to assist the Government of Mali to achieve that "this tragic terrorist attack."The French Ministry of Defense send a unit of French soldiers to Bamako to support the security forces in Mali have been. The French National Gendarmerie Service played about 40 special police forces also supporting role.The deputy UN spokesman Farhan Haq, the UN mission sent reinforcements and medical aid to the scene. He added that there was a small number of UN staff in the hotel but they arrived safely.Reflects the chaos surrounding the siege, has been reported to various death toll during the day. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian 19 people died - 18 in the hotel and a soldier from Mali and one killed in the fighting.The UN official said earlier that preliminary reports put the death toll at 27, but it has been reported that the casualty figures and different organization is working with the authorities to get the exact total. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is still ongoing.An attack on the interests of FranceAttack was seen by many in France, particularly in the government, as a new attack on its interests.

The extremist group has announced two-year split from al-Qaeda branch in North Africa, led by Mokhtar Belmoktar responsibility in a statement carried by Al-Jazeera recorded since. The group said it wants the editors of the Financial prisons fighters and halt attacks on northern Mali.Par8334990Security forces in Mali and help the two women from the surrounding area of ​​the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako on Friday. (Habibou Kouyate / b / Getty Images)Team was formed, known as the Mourabitounes, in 2013 after leaving Belmoktar al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and joined with an armed group in Mali. The statement said the attack Mourabitounes in coordination with the "Emirate of the desert" of al-Qaeda.The French military operation in Mali in 2013 against Islamist extremists who were carrying the northern half of the country's first of many foreign interventions, which began Hollande as president. Those interventions increasing threats against France and interests of radical groups ranging from al-Qaeda's arm in North Africa to the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria has been paid.French news sites and all news television networks immediately turned non-stop coverage of nearly investigating the attacks after the siege of Paris and Bamako.Said Jens David Ohlin, international law expert at Cornell University, and France, "the military has invested a lot of energy to push Islamist rebels from Mali.""While Mali may not have the same emotional significance for the French as do Paris, it is certainly an important part of French military strategy," he added.