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.

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