FILE PHOTO: Malian soldiers survey the damage after a hotel siege in which 17 people died in Sevare, Mali, August 11, 2015. REUTERS/Adama Diarra
BAMAKO (Reuters) - A Mauritanian suspected jihadist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to shooting dead five people in an attack in the Malian capital Bamako in 2015 and planning two other attacks in the country that year that targeted Westerners and killed 37 more people.
In a court appearance in Bamako on Wednesday, Fawaz Ould Ahmed described in detail how he carried out the attack on La Terrace restaurant in March 2015.
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