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Companies withdraw employees; travel agencies cancel Algeria tours

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

photo：JGC Corp. public relations manager Takeshi Endo answers questions from reporters at the company's headquarters in Yokohama on Jan. 18. The company's workers were among those taken hostage in Algeria. (Jun Kaneko) JGC Corp. public relations manager Takeshi Endo answers questions from reporters at the company's headquarters in Yokohama on Jan. 18. The company's workers were among those taken hostage in Algeria. (Jun Kaneko)

A number of Japanese companies are withdrawing their employees from Algeria after terrorists took dozens of foreign nationals hostage at a natural gas complex there on Jan. 16.

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