Inquest into deaths of seven workers at BP joint venture returns verdict of unlawful killing
Flaws in security precautions at an Algerian gas plant partially operated by BP, where seven British residents were murdered by jihadis in 2013, have been highlighted by a coroner.
Delivering a verdict at an inquest in London on Thursday that the men had been unlawfully killed, judge Nicholas Hilliard QC drew attention to multiple failures by the plant’s management to upgrade protection – partly on the grounds of cost.
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