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Algeria death toll up to 81

25 more bodies found in refinery

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: January 21, 2013 at 5:21 a.m.

ECHOROUK ELYAOUMI
Credit: AP
 Algerians look at the wreckage of a vehicle near Ain Amenas, Algeria. Algerian bomb squads scouring a gas plant where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage found “numerous” bodies Sunday.

The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural-gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured it was unclear whether they were hostages or militants, a security official said.

Teams scour Algerian gas plant for mines, bodies

An Algerian security official says bomb squads scouring a gas plant where radical Islamists took dozens of foreign workers hostage have found 25 more bodies. (By The Associated Press)
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