Japan dispatches gov't aircraft to Algeria

TOKYO, Japan - A Japanese government aircraft leaves from Haneda airport in Tokyo for Algeria at 10:12 p.m. on Jan. 22, 2013. Tokyo dispatched the aircraft to Algiers to bring home the bodies of seven Japanese as well as seven survivors of the Algerian hostage crisis. Three other Japanese employees of engineering firm JGC Corp. remain unaccounted for.

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