The
In Amenas hostage crisis began on 16 January 2013, when
al-Qaeda-linked
terrorists affiliated with a brigade led by
Mokhtar Belmokhtar took expat hostages at the Tigantourine gas facility near
In Amenas,
Algeria. One of Belmokhtar's senior lieutenants,
Abdul al Nigeri, led the attack and was among the terrorists killed. After four days, the Algerian
special forces raided the site, in an effort to free the hostages.