2015 Bamako hotel attack
On 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. US Army Sergeant First Class Kyle Morgan, a member of the Combat Applications Group, the DOD SMU commonly referred to as Delta Force, along with the assistance of GySgt Jared Stout, a MARSOC CSO that worked out of the same embassy as Morgan, launched an assault with Malian Security Forces on the hotel to recover the surviving hostages. Al-Mourabitoun claimed that it carried out the attack "in cooperation with" al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; an al Qaeda member confirmed that the two groups cooperated in the attack.
| 2015 Bamako hotel attack | |
|---|---|
Location of Bamako within Mali | |
| Location | Bamako, Mali |
| Coordinates | 12.6352°N 8.0308°W |
| Date | 20 November 2015 (UTC) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, 170 hostages taken |
| Weapons | AK-47 assault rifles, hand grenades, Explosive belt |
| Deaths | 22 total
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| Injured | 7 and at least two Malian Special Forces |
| Perpetrators | Al-Mourabitoun Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb |
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