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Algerian gas plant resumes some production after attack - minister

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's Tiguentourine gas plant resumed some production on Sunday, more than a month after 37 foreign workers were killed in an Islamist attack on the plant, Energy Minister Mohamed Zerguine told state radio.

"It is a partial resuming of production ... we will get 3 billion cubic metres per year," Zerguine was quoted as saying.

An Algerian soldier stands near the Tiguentourine Gas Plant in In Amenas, 1600 km (994 miles) southeast of Algiers, January 31, 2013. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi
An Algerian soldier stands near the Tiguentourine Gas Plant in In Amenas, 1600 km (994 miles) southeast of Algiers, January 31, 2013. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi

The plant produces about 9 billion cubic metres per year of gas, about 11.5 percent of the country's annual total.

(Reporting By Lamine Chikhi; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

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