Gunmen kill at least 16 at Ivory Coast beach resort

Six Islamist terrorists armed with Kalashnikovs Sunday attacked three hotels at the Ivory Coast Grand Bassam Beach,  a resort popular with Western tourists, killing 16 people, including Europeans.  Social media showed people running away from the beach near the Etoil du Sud hotel with graphic images of dead bodies as security services from the National police and French forces reached the scene. The shooting started at the hotel Koral Beach and continued in nearby establishments, according to the website Ivorian Connection.

DEBKAfile: Ivorian security sources found a striking resemblance to the ISIS attack on the Tunisian beach resort of Soussa on June 26, 2015, when gunmen who came ashore by boat and murdered 38 tourists, most of them British.