However this ended when Malian commandos stormed the hotel and freed 170 hostages.
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A spokesman for the ministry, Amadou Sangho, confirmed that two of the suspects have been arrested, although at this point, he refused to name them for the public.
People carry the remains of a person that was slain by gunmen during the recent attacks on the Radisson Blu hotel, during a funeral in Bamako, Mali, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015.
The Mali police detained the two suspects that they accused of contributing to organize the attack. The two suspects were brought in for interrogation after credible information was found in one of the assailants’ mobile phone, a source close to the investigation said. The attack was additionally claimed, nevertheless, by the Macina Liberation Front, a gaggle active in central Mali, in cooperation with Ansar Dine militants. It was primarily responsible for the Northern Malian conflict of 2012 and 2013. The attackers were reportedly shouting Islamic slogans. The individual allegedly even sent telephone credit to the attacker.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria, Libya are all examples of countries attacked by terror organizations due to their relationships with western countries.
Since the Radisson hotel attack, Malian forces have begun night patrols alongside United Nations forces and searched several private residences as part of a package of emergency measures.
In January 2013, the French soldiers succeeded in recapturing seized towns in Mali and driving terrorists into hiding.
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The attack comes amid deteriorating security in the country just two years after a French-led military operation to scatter Islamist militants who briefly occupied the desert north.
