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Militants launch rocket attack on gas field in Algeria

Xinhua, March 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Militants on Friday launched a rocket attack on a gas field in southern Algeria near the border with Libya, with no casualties reported, security sources were quoted by TSA news website as saying.

Two home-made missiles were fired towards the field in In-Salah locality, the sources said.

The field is jointly operated by Algerian energy group Sonatrach, British Petroleum (BP) and Statoil.

Following the attack, army troops launched a wide-scale operation to hunt down the assailants.

It is the first terrorist attack against energy plants, since the attack of January 2013 that targeted a wide gas field in the locality of Tiguentourine, and left more than 38 dead, the majority of whom were foreign workers. Endit