16 Dead in Attack on Ivory Coast Beach Resort

Six heavily armed assailants killed 14 civilians and two soldiers on Sunday in an attack on three hotels in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand-Bassam, before authorities say they “neutralized” the gunmen. Witnesses said the assailants wore hooded face masks and arrived on foot on the beach at one of the hotels, the Southern Star, which was full of foreign expatriates during a heatwave in the city of about 80,000 people. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara put the death toll at...

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