Fate of Algeria gas plant hostages, country by country

Fate of Algeria gas plant hostages, country by country
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Fate of Algeria gas plant hostages, country by country
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Updated 20 January 2013
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Fate of Algeria gas plant hostages, country by country

Fate of Algeria gas plant hostages, country by country

ALGIERS: Algerian forces found 25 bodies of hostages on Sunday, Ennahar TV said, after a crisis that began when Islamists attacked a gas plant on Wednesday and ended with a bloody final military assault on Saturday.
A preliminary interior ministry count gave a figure of 21 hostages killed during the episode. Two other employees of the facility, a Briton and an Algerian, it said, were killed on a bus just before the kidnapping attack.
Thirty-two kidnappers were also killed, and special forces were able to free hundreds of Algerian and foreign workers, the ministry said, without specifying their nationalities.
Below is a country-by-country compilation of available provisional information:

ALGERIA: One Algerian died Wednesday during the attack by the Islamists just before the hostage-taking. The assault by the Algerian army freed 685 Algerian employees, according to Algiers.
BELGIUM: A spokesman of the hostage-takers said Thursday that three Belgians were at the site following the Algerian raid.
BRITAIN: Three Britons are dead, and another three British expats and one British resident are believed to be dead, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday. Another 22 Britons who survived are being repatriated.
COLOMBIA: One Colombian BP employee is believed to be among the hostages killed, President Juan Manuel Santos said.
FRANCE: The foreign ministry announced Friday that a Frenchman, Yann Desjeux — a restaurateur from southeastern France and a former special forces soldier — were among the dead. Three other French nationals have been rescued. The defense ministry said Saturday that no more French hostages remained in Algeria.
JAPAN: Seventeen Japanese nationals were at the plant at the time of the attack. An Algerian hostage said on Sunday that nine of them were executed by their captors from Wednesday. Tokyo had said they had no information about at least 10 of their citizens.
MALAYSIA: Authorities in Kuala Lumpur said Saturday they had no news about two of their nationals. Three others are safe.
NORWAY: Five Norwegian nationals remain unaccounted for, according to the oil group Statoil which runs the In Amenas site along with BP and Algerian group Sonatrach. Statoil had 17 employees at the site when the hostage-taking occurred. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said it was “possible” Norwegians may have died.
PHILIPPINES: Fifty-two Filipinos caught up in the crisis are accounted for, and 39 Filipino survivors of the siege returned home on Sunday, foreign affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said. Manila has refused to confirm reports of two dead.
ROMANIA: One Romanian was killed and a second was wounded during the hostage-taking, Bucharest said Saturday. It said earlier three Romanians had been freed.
UNITED STATES: The State Department on Friday confirmed one American, Frederick Buttaccio, died in the hostage crisis. NBC News reported earlier that one American had been killed, two others had escaped unharmed and that the fates of another two Americans were unknown.
Citing sources close to the Islamists, Mauritania’s ANI news agency said Thursday that two Americans were being held by their abductors.