Death toll in gas plant hostage siege hits 37, including 2 more Americans, officials say
Thirty-seven foreign hostages were killed during the four-day-long terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in Algeria, including two more Americans, the country's prime minister and a U.S. official said Monday. Three Islamist militants were said to be captured alive and at least two Canadians were among the terrorist group that took hundreds hostage.
Seven Americans made it out of the gas plant safely, but three had died, the U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the matter
The official said the FBI had recovered the bodies of the Americans and notified their families. The official had no details on how the Americans died.
Abdelmalek Sellal, Algeria's prime minister, added on Monday that the kidnappers came from Egypt, Canada, Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Tunisia. One of them was a former driver who worked at the facility. He said a number of the hostages had been found killed by a bullet to the head.
Algerian forces took control of the facility from the terrorists on Saturday, when they stormed the site and killed 32.
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