2015 Bamako hotel attack
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terrorist attack in Radisson Blu, Bamako
Key facts
- Date
- 20 November 2015 (UTC)
- Attack type
- Mass shooting , hostage taking
- Weapons
- AK-47 assault rifles , hand grenades , Explosive belt
- Deaths
- 22 total 20 hostages 2 gunmen
- Injured
- 7 and at least two Malian Special Forces
- Perpetrators
- Al-Mourabitoun , Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mass shooting
- Country
- Mali
- Time zone
- UTC
- Image
- Attentat Radisson Blu de Bamako2015(1).JPG
- Number of deaths
- 20
- Number of injured
- 9
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- end time
- 2015-11-20
- point in time
- 2015-11-20
- start time
- 2015-11-20
- armament
- AK-47
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Encyclopedic overview
On 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. The siege was ended when Malian special forces, backed by U.S. and French personnel, launched an assault on the hotel to recover the surviving hostages. Al-Mourabitoun claimed that it carried out the attack "in cooperation with" al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; an al Qaeda member confirmed that the two groups cooperated in the attack.
Background
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