**UPDATE: “They have locked in about 140 guests and about 30 employees,” a spokesperson for the Carlson Rezidor group, which owns Radisson, told NBC News. “So the hotel is locked down and there is no possibility to go out or come in.

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Right now there is an “ongoing active shooter operation” at the Radisson Blu Hotel in the Mali capital, Bamako. The U.S. Embassy has asked it’s citizens to shelter in place. Is this a terror attack unfolding?

Social Media broke reports of gunfire this morning but an adviser with Mali’s defense ministry Lt.

Col. Diarran Kone has reported it’s unclear what is happening right now.

Mali’s North is still insecure since the military coup in 2012, despite French military intervention in the beginning of 2013.

Masked gunmen killed 5 people in a restaurant that was popular with foreigners back in March.

Let’s hope this is NOT a terror attack and that everyone is safe.