One of the Britons freed from the Algerian hostage crisis says that he has “never been so relieved” as when the country’s army arrived to get him out. The unnamed gas workers said they had not felt in any danger as the Algerian army and local security personnel fought the kidnappers. One man in his 50s told Algerian state television: “[The army] did a fantastic job, I was very impressed with the Algerian army, it was a very exciting episode, I feel sorry for everybody that has been injured but other than that I enjoyed it.” The second man, speaking with a north-eastern accent, said: “The gendarmes did a fantastic job, kept us all nice and safe and fought off the bad guys, I never really felt in any danger to be honest.” It is unclear whether the two men were among a group of 30 Britons held hostage inside the In Amenas gas plant, or whether they had escaped on Wednesday during the initial attack by al-Qaeda terrorists on buses taking workers to and from the local airport. Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk Get the latest headlines www.telegraph.co.uk Subscribe to The Telegraph www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
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