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Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility

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20 Nov 2015 4:41 PM IST

Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility

  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Special forces staged a dramatic floor-by-floor rescue, ending the siege after about nine hours (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Security forces stand close to the scene of the hotel attack in Bamako (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    In this image made available by Malikahere.com, security personnel attend close to the scene of an attack on a hotel in Bamako, Mali (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    A woman is led away by security personnel from the hotel in Bamako, Mali (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    It's all happening on the seventh floor, jihadists are firing in the corridor,’ a security source said earlier (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Special forces launched an operation, first hostages released, about 80,' the state-run ORTM channel said on a scrolling banner, without specifying the source of the information (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Malian security forces are storming the hotel after the attack by 'two or three' assailants, a spokesman for the security ministry said (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Malian soldiers, police and Special Forces were on the scene along with UN Peacekeepers and French soldiers (Photo: AFP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Malian troops outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the scene of a hostage situation (Photo: AFP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Some guests were able to escape the hotel. Monique Kouame Affoue Ekonde, an Ivorian, said she and six other people, including a Turkish woman, were escorted out by security forces as the gunmen rushed 'toward the fifth or sixth floor.' (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Onlookers gather near the Radisson Blu hotel after gunmen stormed the hotel building (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    The Mali army commander said that about 20 hostages have so far been freed from the luxury hotel (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Security forces escort a man from the Radisson Blu hotel entrance area were gunmen attacked in Bamako, Mali, Africa (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    The shooting follows a nearly 24-hour siege and hostage-taking at another hotel in August in the central Malian town of Sevare (Photo: Twitter)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Malian army commander Modibo Nama Traore said 10 gunmen stormed the hotel shouting "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," in Arabic before firing on the guards and taking hostages (Photo: AFP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Mali troops try to control a crowd of onlookers near the hotel after the attack (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Malian security sources said at least 27 hostages had been killed and said French special forces had assisted in the rescue (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Mali police walk outside one of the entrances to the Radisson Blu hotel's conference center after an attack by gunmen (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Mali security personal look at their hands after carrying the body of a person from the hotel (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Mali security personal cover the body of a victim inside the Radisson Blu hotel after an attack by gunmen on the hotel in Bamako, Mali (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Mali security personal carry the body of a victim inside the Radisson Blu hotel after an attack (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    The body of a victim after an attack by gunmen on the hotel (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    French troops examine the area inside the Radisson Blu hotel after an attack by gunmen (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    Mali troops at the entrance to the Radisson Blu hotel with yellow Police tape around a pillar after an attack by gunmen (Photo: AP)
  • Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
    At least three hostages were killed as jihadists besieged a luxury hotel in Mali capital Bamako, the country's security ministry said, adding that security forces were now storming the establishment (Photo: AFP)
Special forces staged a dramatic floor-by-floor rescue, ending the siege after about nine hours (Photo: AP)
Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
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