Residents poured from the Radisson Blu, where hostage by armed groups, in Bamako, Mali, November 20, 2015. Reportedly 10 armed militants took hostage 140 guests and 30 staff of the hotel. AP/Harouna Traore
"At least 80 people have been released," wrote the BBC's online site. Free hostages including 12 flight attendants and the airline Air France. However, it was reported that three people were killed in a shootout.
Another guest who is 6 staff held hostage Turkish Airlines, 20 Indians and 10 Chinese citizens. Liberation operation conducted special forces troops backed UN peacekeeping mission there.
"They freed hostages from floor to floor," said a diplomat who managed to escape from the hostage incident.
"They (terrorists) are still in there (the hotel). I ran out of the hotel without knowing where to go. I was exhausted and still in shock," said one resident, Monique Kouame Ekonde.
Hours earlier, a group of armed masked men. 5-13 assumed that the number of people. A security officer told me that the hostage who could recite the Koran immediately released.
This is not the first terror events in Mali. In August 2015, another alleged shootings represent extremist groups killed 13 people, including five UN workers in a hostage situation was almost similar in a hotel in Sevare.
Radisson includes favorite lodging for foreigners and crew of aircraft in transit, Bamako. Radison Blu hotel is also known as the US-owned businesses.
President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, directly resolve foreign visit in Chad and returned to Mali. While French President Francois Hollande called for solidarity for the victims of violence in Mali.
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