More than two dozen people are dead and 130-plus are free after special forces fought gunmen who took 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital of Bamako, according to NPR.

“We can confirm that the attack has ended,” U.S. National Security Spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.

About a dozen Americans including embassy personnel were rescued from the hotel, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said, according to NPR. There were no injuries or deaths of Americans.

U.N., French, and U.S. security personnel including U.S. Diplomatic Security helped to evacuate hostages and transport them to safe locations, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement condemning the attack.

Special forces continued fighting gunmen in the hotel’s upper floors after all the hostages were freed, according to NPR.

At least three attackers died including one who blew himself up, Radio France International reported. Former hostages took shelter in a sports center near the hotel, and seven were hospitalized.

People of 14 different nationalities were at the hotel when it was attacked, according to Col. Salif Traore, Mali’s Internal Security Minister.

Malian TV showed footage of troops in camouflage fatigues wielding AK47s in the lobby of the Radisson Blu, one of Bamako’s most luxurious hotels, HuffingtonPost reported.

No French citizens died in the hotel attack of the former French colony, according to the French defense minister, Reuters reported.

Twelve Air France flight crew were in the building but all were evacuted safely, the French national carrier said, according to HuffingtonPost.

A Turkish official said five of seven Turkish Airlines staff had escaped. The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said three of 10 Chinese tourists caught inside had been rescued.

One of the rescued hostages, Guinean singer Sékouba ‘Bambino’ Diabate, said he overheard two gunmen speaking English as they searched the room next to his.

“We heard shots coming from the reception area. I didn’t dare go out of my room because it felt like this wasn’t just simple pistols – these were shots from military weapons,” Diabate told Reuters by phone, HuffingtonPost reported.

“The attackers went into the room next to mine. I stayed still, hidden under the bed, not making a noise,” Diabate said. “I heard them say in English ‘Did you load it? Let’s go’.”

Two al-Qaida affiliates have claimed responsibility for the attack: al Mourabitoun and al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. Al Mourabitoun is “based in northern Mali and made up mostly of Tuaregs and Arabs,” according to Reuters. The group was responsible for an attack on a hotel in central Mali in August.

Africa has seen some of the worst jihadist violence, Bloomberg reported. Militant groups in Somalia and Nigeria regularly attack civilians and government officials. Attacks on a university and shopping mall in Kenya in the past two years captured headlines around the world.