Ivory Coast: Shooting at Grand-Bassam beach resort

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: BBC

Gunmen have attacked a hotel at the beach resort of Grand Bassam in Ivory Coast, with casualties reported.

Eyewitnesses say the unidentified assailants fired on guests. Unverified footage posted online shows people running away from the beach.

Grand Bassam, about 40km (25 miles) east of the country's main city Abidjan, is popular with tourists.

Ivory Coast was seen as a model of stability until a conflict between the north and the south erupted in 2002.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35798502

[JonathanRackham]

1. Terrorist attack?

Political or ISIS?

[MariaThinks]

3. radical islam i think

[JonathanRackham]

4. Radical something.

With no good intentions.

[melman]

5. No, not just 'something'

"A Qaeda affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying three of its “knights” had attacked the resort."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/world/africa/gunmen-carry-out-fatal-attacks-at-resorts-in-ivory-coast.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

“It was carnage. They shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is great]. They were getting people to shout those words and they killed anyone who didn’t. There were at least four of them. Three walked side-by-side along the beach and there was a fourth man who finished off any survivors."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/13/gunmen-open-fire-in-ivory-coast-tourist-resort

[Nye Bevan]

6. Radical Episcopalians, perhaps? (nt)

[JonathanRackham]

10. Radical is never good.

Zealot is right behind it. Radicals tend to be better funded. Except free radicals, they lack chemistry.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

2. UPDATE: French media reporting 15 dead including 5 Europeans in Grand Bassam attack in #IvoryCoast

UPDATE: French media reporting 15 dead including 5 Europeans in Grand Bassam attack in #IvoryCoast
https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/709046721876267008

http://lci.tf1.fr/monde/afrique/cote-d-ivoire-fusillade-en-cours-dans-un-hotel-de-la-station-balneaire-8723946.html

[zappaman]

7. Fuck that's awful.

[Zira]

8. Didn't this happen at a hotel there a few weeks ago too. I think I saw it on the news.

[romanic]

9. It never ends.