Since Wednesday, they had been surrounding a gas field that an Al Qaeda group captured.
According to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb they had managed to capture forty-one foreign workers, and were holding them hostage.
AQIM had put themselves on TV showing hostages with explosive belts, and the group warned Algerian soldiers not to enter the facility.
The decision to force a conclusion was made by Algerian command, anyways, and the results are still coming in.
At least six of the hostages and eight of their captors were killed in the gunfire. Twenty-five hostages are said to have escaped, while AQIM claims to still have seven hostages. Those numbers leave three unaccounted for.
Several news sources had said that thirty-five of the hostages had been killed, but that would not be possible with the amount confirmed to have escaped.
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