Six employees of Russian airline killed in Mali attack: report

Reuters Updated - January 22, 2018 at 05:34 PM.

Still image from video shows the lobby of the Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali, November 20, 2015. Gunmen shouting Islamic slogans attacked a luxury hotel full of foreigners in Mali's capital Bamako early on Friday morning, taking 170 people hostage, a senior security source and the hotel's operator said. REUTERS/REUTERS TV MANDATORY CREDIT EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE

Six employees of Russian regional airline Volga-Dnepr were killed in Friday's attack on a hotel in Mali, Russia's Interfax news agency reported, citing the government of the Ulyanovsk region where the airline is based.

Earlier Russia's foreign ministry confirmed that Russians had been killed in the attack, without giving a number, after the LifeNews television channel quoted a doctor in Mali saying at least two Russians had been killed.

Published on November 21, 2015 15:14