Malian security forces are searching for three suspects in the hostage-taking in Friday's Bamako hotel that cost at least 19 lives. A state of emergency has been declared and three days of national mourning will start on Monday.
Although military sources had put the death toll of the Radisson Blu hotel as high as 27, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita put it at 19, with seven wounded, in a speech to the nation broadcast on national television on Saturday.
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