There’s been a deadly gun and grenade attack on a Mali nightclub leaving five people dead in the West African country’s capital, Bamako.

Reports say a French national was shot dead at La Terrasse Bar. Two Malian men were also killed as the gunmen fled the scene.

In addition, a Belgian man died when a grenade was thrown at his car in a nearby street and a third European died in hospital.

Witnesses say the attackers shouted “god is great” in Arabic.

Police sources said two people connected to the Mali nightclub incident had been detained.

French President, Francois Hollande, condemned the attack, referring to it as “cowardly”, while his Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, said that it would strengthen the former colonial power’s resolve to “fight terrorism in all its forms”.

Belgian Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, also called it a “cowardly act of terror”.

The European Council President, Donald Tusk, said that the EU would “not be intimidated by terrorism, at home or abroad” and would “remain steadfast in support of Mali and its people”.