100 foreign hostages freed, 30 missing in Algeria

January 18, 2013 23:29

Algerian special forces have freed about 100 foreign hostages from Islamist gunmen at a remote gas plant near the Libyan border, but some 30 are still missing, national media said today.

"Around 100 foreigners out of 132 hostages seized by a terrorist group that attacked the Tiguentourine gas plant on Wednesday have been freed," APS reported, citing a security official.

The Algerian news agency had said earlier that 'more than half' of the foreign hostages had been freed in the rescue operation, along with 573 Algerians, some of whom spoke of their ordeal on Algerian television.

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