Al-Qaida affliated AQIM releases photos of its militants who carried out attack on hotel in Burkina Faso

Jihadists allied to the Al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has released photos of three of its militants who carried out terrorist attack on the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso capital, Quagadougou last Friday which left twenty-two people dead and 30 others injured.

Four of the attackers were killed by security operatives. Two of them were light skinned and one was dark skinned. Eyewitnesses say the assailants were seen in a mosque behind the Splendid Hotel shortly before the attack.