37 foreigners killed, 5 missing in Algerian hostage crisis
Updated: 2013-01-22 00:12
(Xinhua)
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ALGIERS - Algerian Prime Minister Abdel Malek Sellal said here Monday that 37 foreigners from eight countries were killed and another five remain missing in the hostage crisis in a Algerian gas facility.
The prime minister told a press conference that the kidnappers, mostly terrorists from northern Mali, tried to blow off the gas facility.
Some 790 workers, including 134 from 26 countries, were in the complex when the attack took place Wednesday at the gas field in Illizi province, southeast of the capital Algiers, Sellal said.
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