Death toll past 80 after Algeria hostage crisis

Posted: 01.21.2013 at 6:13 AM

Nearly two dozen foreign workers still are unaccounted for following Saturday's raid by Algerian troops that ended a four-day hostage standoff at a natural gas plant in the Sahara desert.
ALGIERS, ALGERIA (AP) --
At least 81 people have been reported dead, including 32 Islamist militants.

One of the dead hostages is an American.

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