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Photo: Jerome Delay / AP / TT
Soldiers patrol outside the hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako, which was attacked by extremists in 2015. File photo.
Gunmen riddled a nightclub with bullets and threw a grenade. A few months later, the extremists took 170 guests and staff hostage at a five-star hotel.
The two terrorist attacks in the Malian capital, Bamako, in 2015 killed a total of 25 people, 16 of them foreigners. On Tuesday, the trial, which is described as an unusual legal action in the violent country, began against the total of four suspected Islamist extremists who are charged.
Several survivors attended the courtroom. Relatives of the murdered foreigners can follow the trial through the video link.
Many of the hotel guests who were attacked are said to have been embassy officials, several of them from the United States. An official from the Swedish Foreign Ministry was at the hotel during the attack, but survived unharmed.
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