Death Toll in Mali Hotel Siege Rises to 12: Army

Bamako: Twelve people were killed, two of them foreigners, in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali which ended early Saturday when government troops intervened, military sources said.

"There are 12 dead in all," one of the sources told AFP said after the operation at the Hotel Byblos in Sevare, listing the fatalities as five "terrorists," five soldiers and two "white people," whose identity was being checked.