Six Filipinos were among the hostages killed by militants who laid siege to an Algerian gas field for four days, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.
Sixteen Filipinos have been accounted for and four others are still missing since Algerian special forces stormed the plant on Saturday to end the siege, Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez told reporters.
“The deaths of the six Filipinos were a direct result of the hostage-taking incident in the area and mostly by gunshot wounds and the effects of the explosions,” Mr. Hernandez said.
Four Filipino survivors were treated in a hospital in Algiers, Mr. Hernandez said.
Most of the workers were employed by Japanese companies, he said.
A total of 1,780 Filipinos work in Algeria. They are part of 10 million overseas workers, or 10 per cent of the population employed abroad.
