In the wake of the hostage situation at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, we look at the history of terrorists targeting hotels.
Hotels housing foreign tourists have become a popular target for Islamist terror groups in Africa and the Middle East.
The fundamentalists often take hostages and it is not uncommon for hotel sieges to last for hours as terrorists face off against police and military personnel.
There have been 8 attacks at hotels in the past five years.
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