Japan's Algeria survivors, dead arrive in Tokyo
- Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 18.45
- Online news: Asia
The seven Japanese survivors of the Algerian hostage crisis, and nine of the ten dead, arrived back in a shell-shocked Japan Friday as the prime minister spoke of the nation's "deepest grief".
Women pray for the ten Japanese victims of the Algerian hostage crisis, in front of an altar at the JGC headquarters in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, on January 25, 2013. The seven Japanese survivors of the Algerian hostage crisis, and nine of the ten dead, have arrived back in a shell-shocked Japan, as the prime minister spoke of the nation's "deepest grief".
Emotional reunions away from the glare of publicity awaited those who made it out of the In Amenas complex alive, amid a renewed national sense of the perils of doing business in resource-rich, but unstable parts of the world.
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