Four resort guests and a solider from the Mali's security force were killed when militants launched the attack on Sunday at the Kangaba Le Campement resort on the suburb of capital Bamako, a local official said.
Local media reported that four gunmen arriving on motorbikes and a vehicle stormed Le Campement Kangaba, near Dougourakoro in capital city Bamako.
A suspected terrorist attack in Mali left 2 civilians dead Sunday evening. Malian, French and United Nations forces deployed in the former French colony responded by killing four of the attackers and arrested five, Reuters reported. A helicopter was circling overhead.
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"MINUSMA congratulates the Malian security forces for their diligent efforts and underlines the importance of full cooperation with the relevant Malian authorities to ensure that those responsible for this heinous crime are identified and brought to justice", said the mission.
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Security has gradually worsened across Mali since French forces pushed back Islamist and Tuareg rebel fighters in 2013 from swathes of the north they had occupied the previous year. One of the attackers was subdued by a French soldier who happened to be at Campement Kangaba over the weekend, according to a witness at the scene.
Initially concentrated in the desert north, attacks have increasingly struck the center and south, around the capital Bamako.
An al-Qaida-linked Islamic militant group has said it staged Sunday's attack on a resort area in Mali popular with foreigners, killing five people, including a Portuguese soldier who had been serving in the European Union mission to stabilize this West African country wracked by mounting extremism.
French troops and a 10,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force have battled to stabilize the former French colony, which is riven by ethnic conflict and plagued by dozens of armed groups.
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