Algeria Hostage Crisis
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Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at a morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria. The Islamist militants who attacked the natural gas plant included two Canadians and a team of explosives experts who had memorized the layout of the sprawling complex. At least 38 hostages and 29 militants died in the attack.
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A truck loaded with empty coffins waits at the main entrance of the hospital where the bodies of victims from the Algeria hostage situation wait to be picked up.
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A view of the natural gas plant in Algeria after it was attacked by Islamic militants.
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Algerian military uniforms worn by Islamist militants who attacked the natural gas plant in Ain Amenas are displayed for the media.
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Weapons are lined up after being confiscated from the natural gas plant attacked by Islamic militants.
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Unidentified rescued hostages pose for the media in Ain Amenas, Algeria. Hundreds of foreign hostages have been freed from a gas plant where Islamist militants held them captive for three days.
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This satellite image shows the Amenas Gas Field in Algeria, which is jointly operated by BP and Norway's Statoil and Algeria's Sonatrach. Algerian special forces launched a rescue operation at the plant in the Sahara Desert and freed foreign hostages held by al-Qaida-linked militants.
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A rescued hostage speaks to the media in a hospital Ain Amenas, Algeria.
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A rescued hostage speaks to the media in a hospital in Ain Amenas, Algeria.
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A rescued hostage receives treatment in a hospital Ain Amenas, Algeria.
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A man reads a newspaper headlining the terrorist attack in Amenas. Algerian forces raided a remote Sahara gas plant in an attempt to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants with ties to Mali’s rebel Islamists.
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Residents of Ain Amenas, Algeria, gather outside the hospital trying to get information concerning relatives wounded during the terrorist attack at the gas plant.
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Militant leader Mokhtar Belmoktar, who is suspected of ordering the attack on a gas facility in Algeria, speaks on camera.
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Algerian special police unit officers secure the hospital in Ain Amenas, Algeria, two days after the start of the terrorist attack at a gas plant.
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