Statoil confirms three dead at In Amenas

Victims: Tore Bech (left) and Thomas Snekkevik

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Steve Marshall

 25 January 2013 12:39 GMT

Statoil has confirmed the deaths of three employees who were killed in last week’s attack by Islamist terrorists at the In Amenas gas facility in Algeria.

The Norwegian victims were named as Tore Bech, aged 58, from Bergen and Thomas Snekkevik, aged 35, from the Austrheim municipality.

Statoil named a third victim, 55-year-old Hans Bjone of Brandbu, as among the deceased later on Friday.

Bech, who was married, had been working for Statoil in Algeria since 2006 and was operations manager at In Amenas, having earlier served as platform manager on the Veslefrikk and Gullfaks fields off Norway.

He was also the stepfather of Norway’s Minister for International Development Heikki Holmas.

Snekkevik had been employed as a turnaround team leader, having…

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