Attackers fire rockets at gas facility in Algerian Sahara

An Algerian local official said the assailants fired homemade rocket launchers around 6 a.m. at the Krechba gas facility, jointly operated with foreign companies and overseen by Algerian state-run gas company Sonatrach.

Norwegian energy group Statoil said the Salah Gas asset in Krechba, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Algiers in the Sahara Desert, was "hit by explosive munitions fired from a distance."

Norwegian foreign ministry spokeswoman Ane Haavardsdatter Lunde said she could confirm there had been an attack and "as we understand it the Algerian security forces have now full control over the facility."