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Seven foreign hostages held by Islamist
gunmen at a gas facility in Algeria are still alive after an Algerian
army attack, a spokesman for the captors told Mauritania's ANI news
agency Thursday.
He claimed the army had started an operation to storm the facility
where the seven are being held.
He said the seven were three Belgians, two Americans, a Japanese
and a Briton. He made an appeal for the companies operating the
facility to help hostages injured in the military attack.
