an security forces were hunting “more than three” suspects on
Saturday after a brazen assault on a hotel in the capital that killed at
least 19 people, officials said, as the country’s president vowed Mali
would not be cowed by terrorism.
“Mali will not shut down because of this attack. Terrorism will not
win,” President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said as he visited the Radisson
Blu hotel in Bamako, scene of Friday’s bloody assault by militants.
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Declaring a 10-day state of emergency and three days of national
mourning, Keita said his government had increased security at strategic
points around Bamako following the attack, which came a week after
Islamist terrorists killed 130 in
attacks across the French capital Paris.
“These people have attacked Paris and other places. Nowhere is
excluded,” Keita said, adding that Mali would still remain open to the
world. “Mali is not a closed area and it never will be.”
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