{"id":34662,"date":"2015-08-09T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=34662"},"modified":"2015-08-09T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T00:35:12","slug":"twelve-dead-as-mali-hotel-siege-ends-hostages-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=34662","title":{"rendered":"Twelve dead as Mali hotel siege ends, hostages freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34663\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Malian-security-forces-on-Saturday-stormed-a-hotel-used-by-United-Nations-staff-and-freed-four-hostages-held-there-by-suspected-Islamist.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Malian-security-forces-on-Saturday-stormed-a-hotel-used-by-United-Nations-staff-and-freed-four-hostages-held-there-by-suspected-Islamist.jpg\" alt=\"Malian security forces on Saturday stormed a hotel used by United Nations staff and freed four hostages held there by suspected Islamist\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34663\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malian security forces on Saturday stormed a hotel used by United Nations staff and freed four hostages held there by suspected Islamist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span class=\"articleLocation\">BAMAKO<\/span> &#8211; Malian security forces on Saturday stormed a hotel used by United Nations staff and freed four hostages held there by suspected Islamist militants during a nearly 24-hour siege in which 12 people died.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The gunmen had seized the Byblos Hotel in the town of Sevare, around 600 km (400 miles) northeast of the west African nation&#8217;s capital Bamako, early on Friday and held off government troops who quickly surrounded the building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The attack, far to the south of the Islamist militants&#8217; traditional desert strongholds, was the latest in what appears to be a growing campaign against Malian soldiers and U.N. personnel by remnants of an al Qaeda-linked insurgency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;(The siege) seems to be over and it has ended well,&#8221; said a Malian defence ministry spokesman, Colonel Diaran Kon\u00e9. &#8220;We freed the four hostages. But unfortunately we also found three bodies at the site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A spokeswoman for Mali&#8217;s U.N. peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA, said four U.N. contractors &#8211; two from South Africa along with a Russian and a Ukrainian &#8211; had been freed in the pre-dawn raid by security forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;At no point were they discovered by the terrorists in the hotel. They were hiding,&#8221; Radhia Achouri said, adding that the mission was verifying whether any other MINUSMA personnel were present inside the hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Three hostages died during the ordeal, Malian government spokesman Choguel Kokala Maiga said. A Malian military spokesman said they were from South Africa, Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">South Africa&#8217;s foreign ministry confirmed that two of its citizens were safe while a 38-year-old Pretoria resident working for an aviation company contracted with MINUSMA had died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Five soldiers and four gunmen, including one who officials earlier said was strapped with explosives, were also killed, he said. <span id=\"midArticle_byline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ukraine and Russia had previously confirmed that their citizens were among the hostages. Russian news agencies, citing a press attache at Moscow&#8217;s embassy in Mali, said a Russian hostage employed by the airline UTair was among those freed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Seven suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack, according to a government statement released late on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SMALL ARMS FIRE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A 2013 French-led military operation drove back Islamist fighters, who had taken advantage of an ethnic Tuareg rebellion and a military coup to seize territory in the north a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While the United Nations has managed to broker a tenuous peace agreement between the government and Tuareg separatists, Islamist fighters left out of the negotiations have mounted an insurgency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Former colonial ruler France and other Western and regional nations fear Islamist fighters could turn the remote region into a launch pad for attacks further afield if they regain power there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Describing the security forces&#8217; operation early on Saturday, a Sevare resident living near the hotel told Reuters: &#8220;The assault &#8230; took place between 4 and 5 o&#8217;clock this morning (0400-0500 GMT). 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