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.
Russian citizens were among the 19 killed in a gun attack at a hotel in the capital of Mali, the RIA news agency reported, citing Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
This echoes reports from the head of a hospital in Mali, who earlier told Russian TV channel LifeNews that at least two nationals had been killed.
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.