MANILA, Philippines—Foreign workers abducted by Islamist militants in Algeria were garlanded with explosives and put into trucks rigged with bombs, the wife of one of the Filipino captives recounted Saturday. Ruben Andrada was just days into his job at a gas plant in the north African desert when he was seized by gunmen avenging what they said was Algiers' support for French military action in neighboring Mali, his wife said. "According to him they draped a bomb on him, like a necklace," said Edelyn Andrada in an interview aired by local radio station dzMM, which said the incident took place during a rescue bid by Algerian forces. (See related story ...
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