Hotel Byblos

A deadly attack and hostage-taking at a Mali hotel is believed to be the work of an Islamist organisation with ties to an Al-Qaeda linked group, investigators said Monday.

Twelve people were killed, two of them foreigners, in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali which ended early Saturday when government troops intervened, military sources said.

Four people including two soldiers were killed today in an ongoing siege at a hotel in central Mali, where gunmen have also taken a number of hostages, a military source said.

A deadly attack and hostage-taking at a Mali hotel is believed to be the work of an Islamist organisation with ties to an Al-Qaeda linked group, investigators said Monday.

Twelve people were killed, two of them foreigners, in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali which ended early Saturday when government troops intervened, military sources said.

Four people including two soldiers were killed today in an ongoing siege at a hotel in central Mali, where gunmen have also taken a number of hostages, a military source said.