ALGERIA:Hostage death toll 'could rise'

A final tally would be released in the coming hours, communications minister Mohammed Said told Algerian radio.
British, US, Norwegian, and Japanese nationals are among the missing after the siege at In Amenas, which was ended by an Algerian army raid on Saturday.
Algeria said its troops had killed all 32 hostage-takers.
Officials said the army launched its assault after Islamist militants began killing foreign hostages.
Mr Said said he very much feared the death toll "would, unfortunately, be revised upwards".
He added that the militants were from six different countries, "nationals of Arab and African countries, and of non-African countries".
Unconfirmed reports from In Amenas spoke of a number of bodies discovered by troops making the site safe.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama have blamed "terrorists" for the hostages' deaths.
Mauritanian website Sahara Media says Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the suspected organiser of the siege, has claimed responsibility for it in a video message.
It said the video - recorded on 17 January while the siege was still going on but not posted on the website - showed the militant leader saying he was prepared to negotiate with Western and Algerian leaders if operations against Islamists in Mali were stopped.

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