Mali mourns hotel attack victims By Editor

Malian troops take position outside the besieged Radisson Blu hotel 

in Bamako

MALI has begun three days of national mourning
following Friday’s militant Islamist attack on a hotel in
the capital, Bamako, in which at least 19 people were
killed.
Malian and international troops stormed the Radisson
Blu hotel to free guests and staff being held hostage.
Two gunmen were killed.
Three different Islamist groups have said they carried
out the attack.
Investigators have yet to determine the number and
nationality of the gunmen.
However, one security source in Mali told the BBC that
officials believed that the two dead gunmen had been
speaking English during the attack.
A source has told the AFP new agency they were not
Malians.
Ahead of the three days of national mourning, the
chairman of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS,
Senegal’s President Macky Sall, visited Bamako to
show support.
He said on Sunday: “Mali will never be alone in this
fight, we are all committed because we are all
involved.”