Algeria crisis ends in bloodshed

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Eoin O'Cinneide ,

News Wires

 19 January 2013 17:50 GMT

Multiple deaths are reported amongst hostages and their captors as Algerian forces brought an end to a standoff crisis at a gas plant.

Seven hostages are said to have been killed by Islamist militants at the In Amenas facility, prompting Algerian forces to make a final assault, resulting in the deaths of 11 hostage takers.

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

Sixteen other foreign hostages are reported to have survived in the final operation by forces which ended a deadly siege which began early on Wednesday morning.

UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed the crisis was over and that lives had been lost, but the nationalities of the deceased were not…

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