IN AMENAS — 2013 · Major Tragedy
In Amenas Hostage Crisis
On the morning of 16 January 2013, about 32 armed militants, said to have come from Libya and Mali, attacked the Tigantourine gas facility south-west of In Amenas near the Libyan border, operated jointly by Sonatrach, BP and Statoil. They took hundreds of Algerian and foreign workers hostage. During the four-day crisis Algerian special forces stormed the site. At least 39 foreign hostages and an Algerian security guard were killed, and the true figure may be higher. Twenty-nine attackers were killed and three captured. A total of 685 Algerian and 107 foreign workers were freed. An al-Qaeda-linked group claimed the attack. The events were examined in detail through witness testimony at a coroner's inquest held in London in 2014-2015.
- Date
- 2013
- Place
- Tigantourine gas facility, Illizi, Algeria, In Amenas, DZ
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Closed
- Coordinates
- 27.9000, 9.1300 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 16 January 2013Militants attacked the gas facility and took hostages.
- 17 January 2013Algerian special forces launched their first assault.
- 19 January 2013A final assault ended the crisis.
- 21 January 2013The Algerian government announced the death toll.
Sources
- CNN — Algeria attack cnn.com ↗
- Euronews — Algeria details the deaths at In Amenas siege euronews.com ↗
- Wikipedia — In Amenas hostage crisis en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Al Jazeera
- Euronews
- CNN
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