Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. At least 81 people have been reported dead, including 32 Islamist militants, after a bloody, four-day hostage situation at Algeria's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)
Algeria's security forces to protect energy plants
Published: 04:49:32 PM, Mon 11 March 2013 UTC
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian official says that the country's security forces will take over the job of securing the country's oil and gas sites following a spectacular terrorist attack and mass hostage-taking on a gas installation in January.
An inquiry into the Ain Amenas plant assault blasted private companies currently responsible for site security in Algeria's energy sectors for failing to prevent it, according to an Interior Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
The official said the inquiry found that the site's infrastructure "was not capable of either preventing this terrorist attack and even less so repelling it."
In all, 37 hostages, including an Algerian security guard, and 29 attackers were killed in a four-day standoff.
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