'Around 30 foreigners still held'

Algerian Ministry of Energy & Mines

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Eoin O'Cinneide

 18 January 2013 14:29 GMT

"Around 30" foreign personnel continue to be held hostage at a gas facility in Algeria with some 650 others said to now be free of a continued standoff crisis, according to reports.

The exact fate of those who have not escaped the serious incident on the In Amenas gas field remains unknown as Algerian troops continue to seek an end to a hostage drama.

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

Numerous reports suggest at least one militant from a group which set upon the plant and a crew bus on Wednesday morning has been captured and confessed that Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar was behind the operation.

Algerian state news agency APS said on Friday that around 650 people have been…

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