Algeria hostage crisis

Algeria hostage crisis

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Flowers are seen in front of engineering firm JGC Corp.'s head office in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Jan. 23, 2013. Seven JGC employees were killed after militants attacked a natural gas plant in Algeria, while three other employees remain unaccounted for.

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