Mali hotel attack: At least 27 killed, al-Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility
20 Nov 2015 4:41 PM IST
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)- Security forces stand close to the scene of the hotel attack in Bamako (Photo: AP)
- 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)
- A woman is led away by security personnel from the hotel in Bamako, Mali (Photo: AP)
- It's all happening on the seventh floor, jihadists are firing in the corridor,’ a security source said earlier (Photo: AP)
- 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)
- Malian security forces are storming the hotel after the attack by 'two or three' assailants, a spokesman for the security ministry said (Photo: AP)
- Malian soldiers, police and Special Forces were on the scene along with UN Peacekeepers and French soldiers (Photo: AFP)
- Malian troops outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the scene of a hostage situation (Photo: AFP)
- 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)
- Onlookers gather near the Radisson Blu hotel after gunmen stormed the hotel building (Photo: AP)
- The Mali army commander said that about 20 hostages have so far been freed from the luxury hotel (Photo: AP)
- Security forces escort a man from the Radisson Blu hotel entrance area were gunmen attacked in Bamako, Mali, Africa (Photo: AP)
- 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)
- 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 troops try to control a crowd of onlookers near the hotel after the attack (Photo: AP)
- Malian security sources said at least 27 hostages had been killed and said French special forces had assisted in the rescue (Photo: AP)
- Mali police walk outside one of the entrances to the Radisson Blu hotel's conference center after an attack by gunmen (Photo: AP)
- Mali security personal look at their hands after carrying the body of a person from the hotel (Photo: AP)
- 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 security personal carry the body of a victim inside the Radisson Blu hotel after an attack (Photo: AP)
- The body of a victim after an attack by gunmen on the hotel (Photo: AP)
- French troops examine the area inside the Radisson Blu hotel after an attack by gunmen (Photo: AP)
- Mali troops at the entrance to the Radisson Blu hotel with yellow Police tape around a pillar after an attack by gunmen (Photo: AP)
- 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)
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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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