Burkina Faso hotel siege declared over

A siege at a Burkina Faso hotel seized by suspected Islamist militants is over, the authorities say, amid reports of an attack on a second hotel, reports BBC.

The assault on the Splendid Hotel in the West African state`s capital, Ouagadougou, killed at least 23 people of 18 different nationalities.

Four attackers were killed, two of them women, officials said.

The Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) militant group has announced that it carried out the attack.

Bukinabe President Roch Kabore arrived at the scene on Saturday morning amid right security.

French President Francois Hollande condemned the "odious" attack on the capital of the former French colony. French troops helped their Burkinabe colleagues during the security operation.

In November, an AQIM attack on a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako left 19 people dead.