Two different Islamist jihadi groups have said they were behind massacre at a hotel in Mali.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta said 19 people were killed and a further seven injured after militants seized 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu in Bamako.
Two Islamist militants were also killed.
Three Chinese executives have been confirmed dead after an terror attack on a popular hotel in Bamako, Mali.
The victims, who were all with China's state-owned China Railways Construction Corp. were among the hostages killed in the raid, the company said in a statement on its website.
The statement named the victims as International Group general manager Zhou Tianxiang, vice general manager Wang Xuanshang, and Chang Xuehui. The three were involved in a project with Mali’s transport ministry, the statement said.
Four Chinese nationals were rescued after Malian authorities stormed the hotels.
A hotel in Mali's capital was targeted by gunmen in an attack which killed 27 and saw 170 people held hostage for several hours.
Bamako is two and half thousand miles from Paris; but in another capital, the same nightmare has unfolded.