Algeria hostage operation over: official media

Algeria hostage operation over: official media

Operation to free hostages, captured by the Islamist gunmen in Algeria a day earlier, is over, Reuters reported.

Algeria's state news agency APS said on Thursday that the military operation to free hostages at a remote desert gas facility had ended, quoting an unnamed official source who gave no further details.

The gunmen had demanded that France stop its offensive against Mali's Islamist rebels and that Algeria withdraw its cooperation with the French operation..

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