Algerian PM: '37 foreigners killed'

Office of Prime Minister of Algeria

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Eoin O'Cinneide

 21 January 2013 14:47 GMT

Thirty seven foreigner oil workers were killed in the attack and hostage crisis at an Algerian gas facility last week, the country's prime minister has said, according to a report.

One Canadian national was also amongst the group of heavily-armed militants which stormed the In Amenas gas facility on Wednesday morning, the BBC cited Abdelmalek Sellal as saying in a statement on Monday.

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

Reports indicate that at least 48 hostages died as a result of the crisis which was brought to a bloody end on Saturday after Algerian special forces stormed militant-held sections of the facility. A total of 29 militants are also said to have died.

Sellal put the death toll…

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