21 January 2013
Last updated at 18:07 GMT
Bob Whiteside, left, on the death of brother Kenny: "You can't guard every installation all over the world."
British hostage Kenny Whiteside was "lined up" and shot dead in the Algerian siege, his brother has said.
Bob Whiteside
told STV that militants "lined up four hostages, including Kenny, and executed them".
Three British hostages have been confirmed dead while efforts
continue to locate a further three Britons believed to be dead. None
have been formally named by the Foreign Office.
David Cameron has pledged help to "find and dismantle" the network responsible.
Mr Whiteside, Paul Thomas Morgan and Garry Barlow have been named as victims by relatives.
A fourth Briton believed to have been killed has been named locally, in Perthshire, as Carson Bilsland.
'International effort'
The prime minister told MPs the
UK would "work closely with the Algerian government to learn the
lessons of this attack and to deepen our security co-operation".
"And we will contribute British intelligence and
counter-terrorism assets to an international effort to find and
dismantle the network that planned and ordered the brutal assault," he
said.
"We must work right across the region."
A raid by Algerian troops on Saturday ended the four-day
siege at a gas plant near the town of In Amenas, in the east of the
country, that is thought to have left as many as 48 hostages dead.
The UK Foreign Office has yet to name any of the British victims.
Bob Whiteside said he had been told by a colleague of his
brother that he had been "executed as the Algerian army went in the
first time - they just lined up four and shot them".
In an interview with BBC News, Mr Whiteside said his family had found out about his brother's death through a Facebook message from his Algerian colleague.
The first British victim to be named was Paul Thomas Morgan, aged 46
"We were not given any official information and it was through Facebook, of all things, that we found out of Kenny's demise."
He said police had visited him on Sunday night to confirm the
death of his 59-year-old brother, who lived with his wife and two
daughters in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Families of other British victims have also been paying tribute to them.
Mr Morgan's mother, Marianne, 65, and his 36-year-old
partner, Emma Steele, described the 46-year-old as "a true gentleman, a
family man".
"He very much loved his partner Emma, his mum, brothers and sister, of who he was very proud," the statement said.
"We are so proud of him and so proud of what he achieved in his life."
'Totally devastated'
The family of Garry Barlow described "a loving, devoted family man" who "loved life and lived it to the full".
In a statement, the widow of the 49-year-old father-of-two,
from Liverpool, said he was "very proud of his family, as they were of
him".
She said his family was "totally devastated" by the death of Mr Barlow, a system supervisor for BP at the In Amenas plant.
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As it escalates it is also becoming a magnet for jihadists from other countries who share this poisonous ideology”
David Cameron on terrorism in Algeria
Carson Bilsland, originally from
from Bridge of Cally, near Blairgowrie in Perthshire, was described as a
former member of the British Speed Skiing team and an adventure sport
enthusiast.
John Macpherson, who had worked with Mr Bilsland as a ski
instructor at Glenshee, described him as a "very vibrant character"
whose loss was a great shock.
A UK-based Colombian is also thought to be dead.
Efforts continue to locate the three remaining Britons feared dead.
Twenty-two British survivors have been flown back to the UK and reunited with their families.
Speaking in the Commons, Mr Cameron said that in Algeria, as
in Somalia, "terrorist activity has been fed by hostage ransoms and
wider criminality".
"To date, the threat it poses has been to these North African
states themselves and, of course, to Western interests in those states.
"But as it escalates it is also becoming a magnet for jihadists from other countries who share this poisonous ideology."
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said 37 foreigners
from eight nationalities were killed during the siege. As many as 48
hostages, including Algerians, are thought to have died in total.
Several hostages remain unaccounted for, including three Britons.
The dead or missing also include workers from the US, Japan, Norway, Romania, Malaysia, the Philippines and Romania.
He said 29 militants had been killed and three captured alive.
Buses attacked
Algerian officials said the hostage-takers - from six
different nationalities - belonged to a new Islamist group formed by a
veteran Algerian militant and kidnapper,
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who recently broke from al-Qaeda.
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Timeline
- 16 January: Militants attack two buses carrying In Amenas workers, killing two
- They then go on to the gas facility's living quarters and main installation, seizing hostages
- Some gas workers manage to escape
- 17 January: Algerian forces attack after the militants try to
move their hostages in five 4x4s - four of the vehicles are destroyed in
an air strike and an unknown number of hostages killed
- 18 January: Stalemate as Algerian forces surround the gas plant where the remaining hostages are held
- 19 January: Algerian forces launch a final assault after reports that the hostage-takers were killing their captives
- 20 January: Algeria says death toll of 32 hostage-takers and at least 23 captives is likely to rise
Mauritanian website Sahara Media says he has claimed responsibility for the hostage-taking in a video message.
The video is said to have showed Belmokhtar claiming he was
prepared to negotiate with Western and Algerian leaders if French
military offensives against Islamists in neighbouring Mali were stopped.
The crisis began on Wednesday when militants attacked two
buses carrying foreign workers and Algerians to the remote site in
south-eastern Algeria. A Briton and an Algerian reportedly died at the
scene.
The militants then took Algerians and foreign workers hostage at the complex, which was quickly surrounded by the Algerian army.
State news agency APS said 685 Algerian workers and 107 out of 132 foreigners working at the plant had been freed.
Among the Britons, two of the survivors have been named as
Lou Fear, 56, from Louth in Lincolnshire and Allen McCloud, 53, from
Plymouth in Devon.
Other freed hostages have been named as Iain Strachan, 38,
from Howwood in Renfrewshire; Darren Matthews, from Saltburn-by-the-Sea,
Teesside; Mark Grant, 29, from Grangemouth, near Falkirk; Alan Wright,
37, from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire; Peter Hunter, 53, from County Durham;
David Murray, 47, from Kirkby in Merseyside; Huw Edwards, 55, from
Macclesfield in Cheshire; Martin Johnson, 62, of Todmorden in West
Yorkshire; Tony Grisedale, 60, from Workington in Cumbria and Stephen
McFaul, 36, from Belfast.
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