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.
Ten gunmen have stormed a luxury hotel in Mali taking 170 people hostage, according to a senior security source.
The source told Reuters the men entered the Radisson Blu in the Mali capital of Bamako shouting "Allahu Akbar" - which means "God is great".
The hotel chain previously said two attackers had stormed the building and they were doing everything they could to provide assistance.
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.