The Sunday Mail
Five people, including French and Belgian nationals, have been shot to death in an attack on a restaurant in the Malian capital Bamako amid peace talks between government and Tuareg groups, police and an AFP reporter on the scene say.
A source at the Gabriel Toure hospital in Bamako said on Saturday that a third European, whose nationality was not immediately clear, had died on arrival while eight people were wounded.
“This is a terrorist attack, although we’re waiting for clarification. Provisionally, there are four dead – one French national, a Belgian and two Malians,” a policeman told the AFP news agency on Saturday, adding that the dead included a police officer passing at the time of the shooting.
Firefighters carried the body of the French national from La Terrace in Bamako’s lively Hippodrome district following the attack shortly after midnight, according to an AFP correspondent who witnessed the aftermath. —
