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| Hotel standoff in Mali, U.N. employee among 8 dead |
| 2015-08-08 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... employee is among dead and an unknown number of hostages was still being held in Mali by gunnies who stormed a hotel in the central town of Sevare, triggering a shootout that killed at least eight people, the military said Friday. "The hostage taking is still going on. The corpse count now is three dead soldiers and four maimed," a military source said. "Two Earlier the authorities had said that four people, including two soldiers, had been killed at the Byblos hotel, which is popular with foreigners. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... News Agency that Dare Not be Named said that gunnies stormed two hotels seizing at least six hostages. It added that "Islamic snuffies assaulted one hotel in the town of Sevare, and then after an exchange of gunfire moved on to the Hotel Byblos next door where they grabbed between six and 10 people" according to Lt. Col. Diarran Kone. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a statement based on information from its embassy in Algeria saying that the goal of the attackers was believed to be to take hostages from among the foreign citizens living in the hotel. "According to the information available, a Ukrainian citizen may be among those foreign citizens taken hostage. In addition, three citizens of South Africa and a French citizen may be held hostage," it said. AFP said that an Ukrainian citizen fled the standoff. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The death of U.N. employees or borrowed soldiers generally goes unreported, as do crimes committed by employees and soldiers. Very bad for business, very bad. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-08-08 12:54 |
| #2 Don't think that Mr. G(r)om, if you think that you will start a 3 day popcorn binge and live to regret it. /G(r)oms dentist. BTW where's Barb? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-08 06:56 |
| #1 I, probably, shouldn't think what I'm thinking. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-08 04:45 |