Algeria hostage crisis: 'scores escape'

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By News reports

 17 January 2013 11:18 GMT

A large number of workers in a group being held hostage by Islamist terrorists at a gas facility in Algiera have reportedly escaped while BP has confirmed some of its staff are amongst those detained.

The development comes as joint operator of the In Amenas field BP said it had confirmed the status of all its staff working at the facility but refused to provide any details on the number or make-up of its staff there.

(Read our full coverage on the crisis at In Amenas here.)

Algerian news reports claimed 30 people who were being held following an armed raid on the wet gas facility near the Libyan border early on Wednesday morning have now made it to safety. Early conflicting reports suggested either that all…

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