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At least five people including a French and a Belgian were shot in the night from Friday to Saturday by an armed commando attacked a restaurant in a busy street of Bamako, is it learned from the police and a hospital source.

“This is a terrorist attack, even if we wait for clarification. According to a preliminary assessment, there are four dead, one French, one Belgian and two Malians, “said locally AFP a Malian police. But according to a source at the Gabriel Toure Hospital in Bamako, a third European, whose nationality was not disclosed, died on admission. Matin Dimanche, French President Francois Hollande denounced “with the greatest force cowardly attack,” the Elysee confirming that French was “very likely” been killed. The head of state will hold talks with his Malian counterpart to “offer with France.”

Eight people were injured in the attack, some seriously. Witnesses quoted by the BBC would have seen four people run away shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great). Two suspects were arrested in a nearby street, according to RFI.

Firefighters were seen coming out of the restaurant La Terrasse, a popular restaurant, especially by the Europeans, a stretcher carrying the body of French national. In a nearby bar street, the body of a Malian police and the keeper of a private home lying on the ground, while a little further away the body of a Belgian national was also visible.

Dozens of police cordoned off the area, and the few eyewitnesses to the event refused to testify “fear”. The Embassy of France in Bamako sent a message advising “caution” to all French nationals living in the Malian capital.