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Gunmen attack Hotel in Mali’s Bamako, take hostages, deathtoll piles up, shooting ongoing - Reports

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Armed attackers laid siege to a hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako on Friday and are rumored to be holding hostages, Reuters reports.
Unconfirmed reports said 7 people including 4 soldiers have been killed and shooting current ongoing as at press time.

The area around the Radisson hotel is being sealed off by security forces as they try to assess the situation, an anonymous official told Reuters.

“Very early in the morning there was gunfire,” the security official said. “Apparently it’s an attempt to take hostages.”

The perpetrators behind the attacks are supposedly jihadists wielding automatic weapons, a source was cited as telling the Agence France-Presse news agency.

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