David Cameron is to update MPs on the aftermath of the Algerian hostage crisis - as the death toll from the violent siege rose to 80.
Three Britons are now known to have died in a four-day siege at the BP gas plant and three more are believed to be dead. A UK resident is also thought to have died.
At least 48 hostages are thought to have been killed, along with 32 terrorists who stormed the remote desert facility.
Algerian security sources say that two of the dead militants were Canadian.
Veteran terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar's Mulathameen Brigade has threatened to carry out more attacks unless Western powers cease operations in neighbouring Mali, according to a Mauritanian news agency.
Paul Morgan In a statement the al Qaeda linked group, whose name means "The Masked Ones", reportedly said the hostage-takers offered negotiations on freeing the gas plant captives but that Algerian authorities responded with a military assault.
The first of the British victims to be officially named was 46-year-old Paul Morgan, from Liverpool.
He was reported to be a former Foreign Legion soldier and Gulf War veteran who was in charge of security at the In Amenas plant.
His mother Marianne, 65, and partner Emma Steele, 36, described him in a statement as a "true gentleman".
Another image shown on Algerian TV They said: "Paul was a true gentleman, a family man, he very much loved his partner Emma, his mum, brothers and sister, of whom he was very proud.
"He loved life and lived it to the full. He was a professional man proud to do the job he did and died doing the job he loved.
"We are so proud of him and so proud of what he achieved in his life. We are devastated by Paul's death and he will be truly missed."
The siege ended on Saturday and Algerian authorities warned the figure of 23 hostages killed at the remote facility would rise sharply.
Bomb squads searching for booby-trap devices left by the Islamist militants discovered 25 bodies, some so badly disfigured they could not be identified.
A Filipino survivor of the siege has told how foreign hostages were used as human shields to prevent Algerian troops firing on them from helicopters.
Father-of-four Joseph Balmaceda said: "Whenever government troops tried to use a helicopter to shoot at the enemy, we were used as human shields.
"We were told to raise our hands. The government forces could not shoot at them as long as we were held hostage."
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal is expected to give details later about the hostage crisis, which left British, American, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Filipino and Romanian workers dead or missing.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar sent a video to a Mauritanian-based news website in which he claimed one of his cells, known as "Those Who Sign In Blood", was responsible for the attack.
Foreign Secretary William Hague branded the militants "cold-blooded murderers" and said reports they had "executed" seven of their hostages before the final battle could well be true.
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