Six Filipinos among dead in Algeria

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Six Filipinos among dead in Algeria

Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 13.59
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MANILA - Six Filipinos were among the hostages killed by militants who laid siege to an Algerian gas field for four days, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday.

Sixteen Filipinos have been accounted for and four others are still missing since Algerian special forces stormed the plant on Saturday to end the siege, Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez told reporters.

He said the information came from Algerian authorities, which expressed their condolences to the Philippine government and the victims' families.

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Discussion 1 : 21 Jan 2013 at 19.201
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Algerian authorities expressed their condolences to Philippine government and victims' families. its a coldblooded gesture. the incompetent Algerian arm-forces murdered 99% of the hostages not the rebels. Algerian arm-forces gun-down anything that moves in their way. i don't feel sorry for them because everyone who insulted himself to work in the doomed gas field. the gas field is appropriated to BP & its siblings by Algerian regime to steal Algerian gas and pump it all the way into a submarine pipeline to gas-hungry-Israel at 10% of market price. Algerian Regime is the next target for arabspring after Syria.
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