BBC: How did gunmen enter the hotel?
Posted at 10:46
There are several accounts of what happened in Bamako this morning:
A witness in Mali’s capital city, Bamako, suggests the attackers had diplomatic plates on their car.
“They have come this way while I was sweeping in the yard,” said the hotel gardener.
“They were in car with a diplomatic license plate. They were masked. At the gate of the hotel, the guard stopped them and they started firing and we fled.”
But another witness report, suggests that a vehicle forced its way through the security barrier at the hotel:
“I don’t know how many [attackers there were]. They were between five and 13. They injured three security guards who were at the gate of the hotel.
“These security guards are from a security firm, they are not soldiers.”
REUTERS:
Gunmen moving floor by floor, have arrived on the seventh floor of Radisson hotel - Senior security source