JGC workers amongst kidnapped in Algeria

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga would not comment on whether or not the government had received demands from the kidnappers

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By Josh Lewis & news wires

 17 January 2013 05:16 GMT

The Japanese government has confirmed that several employees from engineering company JGC Corporation had been kidnapped in Algeria.

Reuters cited a statement from JGC which said the company would not comment the number of its employees kidnapped or the location of the incident.

However, Japan’s Jiji news agency reported that the Foreign Ministry told a meeting of a ruling bloc task force on the incident on Wednesday night that three Japanese nationals may have been abducted.

Other reports cited unnamed sources within JGC as saying five Japanese nationals had been kidnapped in Algeria.

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga called a press conference Wednesday evening confirming that several JGC employees had been…

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