Mali’s Interior Minister, Salif Traore, has said that all hostages held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, have been freed.
Malian special forces entered the hotel after Islamist gunmen stormed the building shooting and shouting “God is great!” in Arabic.
The US-owned hotel is popular with foreign businesses and airline crews.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but al-Qaeda affiliated militants have previously carried out attacks in the Sahel based country.
The Radisson Blu Hotel attack is coming a week after Islamic State (IS) militants killed 129 people in Paris.