馬裏麗笙酒店遭襲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.

持槍襲擊者在馬裏首都巴馬科的麗笙酒店內劫持170名人質，被報至少已有3人死亡。酒店方面表示，兩名武裝人員將140名客人和30名僱員鎖在了酒店內。

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擊者Amadou Keita說，這些襲擊者於週五早上乘坐外交車輛進入酒店，一進酒店就開槍，他說，槍擊持續了好幾分鐘。

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

一名聯合國官員透露，兩名馬裏公民和一名法國公民已經死亡，但對此沒有進一步進行具體說明。

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.

馬裏國家電視臺ORTM的記者在現場告訴CNN，馬裏軍方在聯合國部隊的幫助下已經包圍了酒店。他們已經解救了幾名人質。在人質中有三名聯合國工作人員，CNN記者得知。還不清楚到底有多少其他工作人員在裏面。目前還沒有組織宣稱對此負責。

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.

但是這場襲擊的時間點非常令人不安，因爲幾天前法國總統奧朗德剛剛派部隊到非洲國家成功打擊了IS組織。

"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.

“法國用它的武裝力量，它的軍人，它的勇氣引發了戰爭。這必然會把戰爭帶給它的同盟國，它的合作夥伴，這給了我們理由去動用所有可用的手段，正如我們在馬裏所做的，正如我們將在伊拉克繼續做的，在敘利亞繼續做的。”他說。

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.

馬裏是法國以前的殖民地。應馬裏的要求，法國曾於2013年在伊斯蘭極端分子攻陷戰略重鎮孔納之後發動攻勢。