Malian security forces are looking for more than three suspects in connection with last week's terror attack on a luxury hotel in the capital city of Bamako. Armed forces, in a televised statement on Sunday, said they were following several leads.
"The search has started and I can tell you that we are looking for more than three people," armed forces commander Major Modibo Nama Traore told the Associated Press.
Several terrorists took 170 people hostage in a terror attack in the Radisson Blue hotel in the Malian capital on Friday. Twenty-one hostages, including six Russians, three Chinese, an American and a Belgian, were killed in the attack, which was claimed by an al Qaeda-linked Malian jihadist group Al-Murabitoun.
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Saturday declared a 10-day state of emergency in the country.
"Terrorism will not win. Mali will not shut down because of this attack. Paris and New York were not shut down, and Mali won't be," Keita said after visiting the terror-stricken hotel, according to the Guardian.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for broadest international cooperation to fight terrorism in wake of terror attack in Mali, as HNGN previously reported. Six Russian workers of a cargo airline were killed in the attack.
Putin, in his condolence message to Keita, said that the atrocious crime reaffirms that terrorism knows no boundaries and is a real danger for the whole world, according to the Tass news agency.
"People of different nationalities and religions become its victims, and it is possible to withstand this threat only through the broadest international cooperation," Putin said.
