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5 dead in Mali restaurant attack
« on: March 07, 2015, 05:08:45 pm »
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/07/france-belgium-condemn-mali-restaurant-attack/?intcmp=latestnews

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BAMAKO, Mali –  At least one masked gunman sprayed bullets in a nightclub popular with foreigners in Mali's capital early Saturday, killing at least five people including a French person and a Belgian national, officials and witnesses said.

France and Belgium condemned the attack at La Terrasse restaurant and bar in Bamako and their foreign ministers confirmed the deaths of their nationals.

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders denounced a "cowardly act of terror" and France's Laurent Fabius said "everything must be done to find those responsible for this crime."

The Belgian killed was security officer for the European Union, said EU president Donald Tusk. "The European Union will not be intimidated by terrorism, at home or abroad," said Tusk. "We will remain steadfast in support of Mali and its people."

Mali's president and prime minister visited the scene and called it "a criminal and terrorist act." A government statement said an i