THE SOCIAL REALITY 14 december 2015
MALI
20 november 2015 Photo: Habibou Kouyate AFP/Getty Images
No.4
At least twenty people were killed during a hotel siege by Islamist gunmen in Mali’s capital of Bamako on Friday, including 18 guests and two Malian police, the country’s interior minister, said. U.N. officials had previously said 27 bodies were discovered. The interior minister added that 17 guests were also injured along with three Malian police officers, the Associated Press reports. Over 100 hostages were taken during the assault, according to multiple reports. In a recorded statement carried by Al-Jazeera, an extremist group that split from al-Qaida’s North Africa branch two years ago claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it wanted fighters freed from Mali’s prisons and for attacks against northern Malians to stop.