A wounded child is surrounded by Ivorian security forces after heavily armed gunmen opened fire on March 13, at a hotel in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand-Bassam. AFP PHOTO
GRAND-BASSAM, Cote d’Ivoire: Gunmen killed 16 people at an Ivory Coast resort Sunday, leaving bodies strewn on the beach, in an attack claimed by an Al-Qaeda affiliate as fears grow of a mounting jihadist threat in West Africa.