6 Pinoys among those killed, 4 missing

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HOSTAGE. Satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe from October 8, 2012 shows Amenas, Algeria. Islamist militants held dozens of foreign hostages and hundreds of Algerian workers hostage in a gas field located approximately 45 km from the city. AFP Photo/DigitalglobeSix Filipinos have been confirmed dead by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in the Algeria gas plant hostage-taking incident. Four others remain missing, DFA spokesperson Raul Hernandez said on Monday, January 21. The deaths were a “direct result of the hostage-taking incident in the area and mostly by gunshot wounds and the effects of the explosions,” he added. Previously, the bodies of 25 foreigners were found by security forces on Sunday, January 20, after they sought to secure a gas plant in the Sahara that Islamists took over. Among the dead were 9 Japanese hostages. More are feared dead after special forces on Saturday swooped on the gas plant owned by the British BP, Norway’s Statoil and Algeria’s Sonatrac to end a siege that started Wednesday, January 16. Members of the “Signatories in Blood” descended on the gas plant located in In Amenas, demanding an end to French military intervention in Mali.


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