ALGIERS - Foreign governments voiced alarm Thursday over the fate of their citizens seized by Islamists at a gas plant in the Algerian desert, where a dramatic rescue operation left several hostages dead.
As relatives endured a tense wait for news from the raid on the plant, officials said Algerian special forces had taken control of a residential compound at the complex, where hundreds of hostages were being held.
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