37 foreigners die at Algeria gas plant, 7 missing-prime minister
ALGIERS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A total of 37 foreign workers died in a hostage crisis at an Algerian desert gas plant, with seven still missing, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday.
Sellal also told a news conference that 29 militants had been killed and three captured alive in the siege, which Algerian forces ended on Saturday by storming the plant.
(Reporting by Lamine Chikhi; editing by David Stamp)
ALGIERS, Jan 21- A total of 37 foreign workers died in a hostage crisis at an Algerian desert gas plant, with seven still missing, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday.