马里丽笙酒店遭袭170人被劫持

Gunmen have taken 170 people hostage inside the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, with at least three deaths reported. The hotel chain said two armed men have locked in 140 guests and 30 employees.

持枪袭击者在马里首都巴马科的丽笙酒店内劫持170名人质，被报至少已有3人死亡。酒店方面表示，两名武装人员将140名客人和30名雇员锁在了酒店内。

The men came in a diplomatic vehicle Friday morning, firing as they entered the hotel, said witness Amadou Keita, who works at a cultural center close by. The gunshots went on for several long minutes, he said.

在附近的文化中心工作的目击者Amadou Keita说，这些袭击者于周五早上乘坐外交车辆进入酒店，一进酒店就开枪，他说，枪击持续了好几分钟。

Two Malian nationals and a French national have died, a U.N. official said without elaborating.

一名联合国官员透露，两名马里公民和一名法国公民已经死亡，但对此没有进一步进行具体说明。

Malian soldiers with help from U.N. troops have the hotel surrounded. They were able to free a few hostages, a journalist for ORTM, the state television, told CNN from the scene. Among them were three U.N. staff members, a source told CNN. It's unknown how many other staffers remain inside. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the incident.

马里国家电视台ORTM的记者在现场告诉CNN，马里军方在联合国部队的帮助下已经包围了酒店。他们已经解救了几名人质。在人质中有三名联合国工作人员，CNN记者得知。还不清楚到底有多少其他工作人员在里面。目前还没有组织宣称对此负责。

But the timing of the attack is troubling because it comes just a day after French President Francois Hollande praised his troops for successfully fighting Islamists in the African nation.

但是这场袭击的时间点非常令人不安，因为几天前法国总统奥朗德刚刚派部队到非洲国家成功打击了IS组织。

"France is leading this war with its armed forced, its soldiers, its courage. It must carry out this war with its allies, its partners giving us all the means available, as we did in Mali, as we are going to continue in Iraq, as we'll continue in Syria," he said.

“法国用它的武装力量，它的军人，它的勇气引发了战争。这必然会把战争带给它的同盟国，它的合作伙伴，这给了我们理由去动用所有可用的手段，正如我们在马里所做的，正如我们将在伊拉克继续做的，在叙利亚继续做的。”他说。

Mali is a former French colony. At Mali's request, France launched an offensive in 2013 after radical Islamists seized the strategic town of Konna in the former French colony.

马里是法国以前的殖民地。应马里的要求，法国曾于2013年在伊斯兰极端分子攻陷战略重镇孔纳之后发动攻势。