MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish oil company Cepsa has begun to evacuate personnel in Algeria following an attack by Islamist militants on a gas facility in the country where foreigners were taken hostage, a spokesman for Cepsa said on Thursday.
An Algerian gas facility operated by British Petroleum, Norway's Statoil and Algeria's state company was attacked by Islamist militants on Wednesday. The militants said they had kidnapped up to 41 foreigners in the raid in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali.
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