Algeria hostage crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Japanese government and JGC Corp. officials preparing to place flowers on the coffins of victims of a hostage crisis in Algeria at Haneda airport on the morning of Jan. 25, 2013, after a government plane carrying the bodies of nine Japanese victims and the seven Japanese survivors of the crisis arrived at the airport in Tokyo from Algeria. All the 17 Japanese nationals were working for JGC, an engineering firm based in Yokohama.

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