Five people were killed Saturday during an attack on a bar in Mali's capital, Bamako.
A French national and Belgian citizen, as well as a Malian police officer, were among those killed in the late night attack.
Witnesses told the BBC that a masked attacker shouted "God is Great" in Arabic before spraying the nightclub in gunfire and launching grenades.
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Modibo Keita toured the scene of the massacre for themselves later on Saturday.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but French and Malian forces have been fighting al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in the country's north in recent years.
"The killer came here because there were foreigners. He wanted to kill foreigners, that's for sure," a waiter at the venue told Agence France-Presse.
At least eight people were reportedly wounded in the assault.
French President François Hollande condemned the attack, telling Preisdent Keita he had France's full support in the fight against terrorism.
.@fhollande a fait part à Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta du soutien total de la France dans la lutte contre le terrorisme