Statoil: one more safe in Algeria

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Eoin O'Cinneide

 18 January 2013 07:46 GMT

Statoil has said that one more of its 17 staff caught up in a terror raid and hostage crisis in Algeria has been declared safe but the fate of others remains uncertain.

The Norwegian oil giant continues to fly rescued personnel and staff members from other Algerian oil & gas facilities out of the country after what appears to be a botched rescue mission by Algerian forces, leading to numerous deaths at the In Amenas gas plant.

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

Meanwhile, the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth office has said that the hostage crisis at the plant, which began on Wednesday morning after it was stormed by heavily-armed gunmen, has not yet been resolved, describing it as…

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