NIA, a Mauritanian news agency, quoting a spokesman for the kidnappers, reports that 35 hostages and 15 assailants have been killed, after an Algerian army attack on the In Amenas gas field where an undetermined number of hostages were being held captive by islamists.
The NIA says the leader of the hostage-takers, Abu al-Baraa, was killed during the offensive and that the army attacked the kidnappers' vehicles as they attempted to transport hostages.
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