Algeria hostage crisis

Algeria hostage crisis

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Koichi Kawana, president of engineering firm JGC Corp., is pictured during a press conference at the company headquarters in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Jan. 25, 2013. A government plane carrying the bodies of nine Japanese victims and the seven Japanese survivors of a hostage crisis in Algeria, all of whom were working for JGC, arrived in Tokyo from Algeria earlier in the day.

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