Terrorist attack kills 21, 170 taken hostage.

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[h=1]Mali attack: more than 20 dead after terrorist raid on Bamako hotel[/h]

A terror attack at a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital has left at least 21 people dead, including two militants, and highlighted the world’s growing vulnerability to extremist violence.
Less than a week after the Paris gun and suicide bomb attacks in which 130 people were killed, a group of heavily armed and seemingly well-trained gunmen stormed the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako.

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They drove unchallenged into an inner compound, detonated grenades, opened fire at security guards and then took hostage about 170 people