(VOVworld) - Mali authorities arrested two people on Thursday suspected of links to an attack on a luxury hotel in the capital of Bamako that killed 20 people.

Armed men held 170 guests and staff in a siege that lasted about nine hours last Friday (Photo: Jerome Delay/AP)

According to a source close to the investigation, the suspects had been brought in for interrogation but their identities and alleged roles in the attack weren’t revealed.

Armed men held 170 guests and staff in a siege that lasted about nine hours last Friday before Malian and international forces stormed the Radisson Blu hotel last Friday.

Among the hostages, there were nationals from the US, France, China, India, and Algeria.