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Algeria army kills 34 hostages, 15 kidnappers

AFP
AFP
17/01/2013
14:06 MYT
Algeria army kills 34 hostages, 15 kidnappers
Algerian military forces killed 34 hostages and 15 of their Islamist kidnappers in an assault on a remote desert gas field on Thursday, the ANI news agency quoted a spokesman for the kidnappers as saying.
"Thirty-four hostages and 15 kidnappers were killed in an (air) raid by the Algerian army," the spokesman said.
Among the dead was Abu al-Baraa, who led the Wednesday operation in which 41 foreigners and scores of Algerians were seized.
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