Mali releases photos of slain gunmen in hotel attack

Armed Islamic extremists on Friday last week stormed a deluxe hotel locking in 170 people, killing at least 22 of them, while 20 captured Indians were evacuated without any harm.

“All Malians are moved today”, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said while announcing the awarding of the National Order of Mali medals during an afternoon ceremony at a soccer field in Bamako.

People carry the remains of a person that was slain by gunmen…

The photos of the two young men were taken after Friday’s rampage at the Radisson Blu hotel in which 19 people were killed, said Capt Baba Cisse at the Interior Ministry. The first daughter of a family is very important, like a third pillar of the family after the father and mother.

“The hotel will do everything to reopen as quickly as possible”, he told a news conference in Bamako.

“The three employees paid homage to the co-workers we’ve lost, underlined our solidarity as well as our dedication to Bamako”, Neumann said.

One of the micro-blogging site users, Saqr Qaaed who seemed to be a member of Jabhat al Nusra, boasted on the fact that al-Mourabitoun ensured that no Muslim was killed in the brutal attack in Mali.

The group known as Al-Mourabitoun – or The Sentinels – identified the gunmen as Abdel Hakim Al-Ansari and Moadh Al-Ansari, a report posted Sunday by Al-Akhbar said.

Mali is home to a peacekeeping mission with more than 10,000 military and police employees, created after a French-led Islamic extremists were driven by military intervention in early 2013 from towns and the cities they’d overtaken in the north of the state.