Mali president says 21 dead in Bamako hotel attack

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita arrives at Orly Airport, near Paris, at the start of a three-day state visit, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Etienne Laurent/Pool

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Twenty-one people were killed on Friday in an attack on a hotel in Mali's capital by Islamist militants and seven people were wounded, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said on state television. The dead included two militants. Keita declared a national state of emergency from midnight and three days of national mourning. (Reporting by Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Chris Reese)