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Algeria PM: 37 foreigners killed in hostage crisis

By AFP
Algeria Coffins are transported to collect victims killed during the Algeria hostage crisis on January 21, 2012 in In Amenas.  By Farouk Batiche AFP
MON, 21 JAN 2013 LISTEN
Coffins are transported to collect victims killed during the Algeria hostage crisis on January 21, 2012 in In Amenas. By Farouk Batiche (AFP)

ALGIERS (AFP) - Thirty-seven foreigners of eight different nationalities were killed during the hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant that was overrun by Islamist gunmen, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday.

"Thirty-seven foreigners of eight different nationalities," were killed during the four-day siege, Sellal told a news conference in Algiers, adding that an Algerian was also killed, giving an overall toll of 38.

He also said that the 32 militants who overran the In Amenas gas complex, taking hundreds of workers hostage, came from northern Mali. Twenty-nine of them were killed and three arrested.

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