Witness: 1 European killed, 3 kidnapped in Mali

BAMAKO, Mali?? Gunmen burst into a restaurant in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu and kidnapped four European tourists, killing one when he refused to get in their car, a customer told The Associated Press.

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Moussa Boubacar was inside the Amanar Restaurant on the northern edge of the city.

He said the armed men burst in around 2:30 p.m. Friday and told the four tourists dining there to follow them.

Boubacar said the tourists were European.

One of them, an elderly man, refused to get inside the car and Boubacar said they killed him on the spot.

Timbuktu is one of the many former tourist destinations in Mali that have been deemed too dangerous to visit by foreign embassies due to the risk of kidnapping by the local chapter of al-Qaida.

The kidnapping Friday comes after two French citizens were grabbed in the Malian town of Hombori Thursday.

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