Mali police launch search for hotel attack gangsters

French gendarmes arrive at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako on November 21, 2015, a day after a deadly attack. Investigators in Mali are hunting at least three people suspected of links to the jihadist siege at the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in the capital that left at least 19 people dead. PHOTO | AFP

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The government has declared a state of emergency after the bloody nine-hour hostage-taking at the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital Bamako on Friday, exactly a week after the Paris attacks.