(VOVworld) -  Authorities in Mali published images of a man and a woman Monday they said helped plot an attack in the Radisson Blu luxury hotel in Bamako, Mali last week, killing 19 people.

People drive motorcycles past the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, November 22, 2015. REUTERS/Joe Penney

A source close to Mali’s security ministry said the suspects have links with the two terrorists who attacked the hotel. Investigators recovered mobile phones and machine pistols from the bodies of the two militants that would help them understand how the attack was conceived. The Massina Liberation Front, blamed for previous violence in southern Mali, on Sunday became the third group to claim responsibility for the hotel attack. Jihadist group Al Mourabitoun and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had already declared they had carried out a joint operation against the Radisson Blu hotel. Senegal, Mauritania, and Guina Monday announced a 3-day national mourning for the victims of the jihadist siege.