Police probe area where Soga was snatched in Niigata

NIIGATA, Japan - Police conduct an inspection on Oct. 5 in front of a shop in the town of Mano on Sadogashima Island. Hitomi Soga, one of the Japanese abducted by North Korea in 1978, was snatched from the area.

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