BAMAKO: At least 12 people including four foreign UN contractors died in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali that ended early Saturday when government troops stormed the building.
“There are 12 dead in all,” an army officer told AFP after the operation at the Hotel Byblos in Sevare, listing the fatalities as five “terrorists”, five soldiers and “two white people”.
The body of one of the foreign victims had lain in front of the hotel since Friday when the gunmen stormed the building, the officer said.
The UN mission in Mali MINUSMA said two Ukrainians, a Nepalese and a South …read more
Source: theSun
