5 Militants Involved In Dreadful Hotel Attack, Killed

Malian security forces have killed five militants involved in an attack at the weekend on a luxury resort popular with Western expatriates outside Mali’s capital Bamako.

Security Minister Salif Traore told Radio France International;

“This was without doubt a terrorist attack,”  

“The anti-terrorist forces arrived on the scene immediately afterwards. Five terrorists were killed … The operations continued throughout the night.”

Traore added that the militants had some accomplices who had not been killed or detained. On Sunday night, authorities reported that two of the assailants had been killed.

Authorities said that gunmen on Sunday attacked a luxury resort popular with Western expatriates just outside Mali’s capital, Bamako, killing two people.

Traore who called the attack a terrorist act, said that 36 guests were rescued.