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Algeria Hostage Crisis: Japan confirms death of last missing national
The Japanese government has confirmed the death of the last missing national in last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the announcement at an emergency news conference on Thursday evening.
The news brings the total number of Japanese fatalities to 10. All were working for the engineering firm JGC Corporation.
Sources say the latest fatality was the corporation’s top advisor and former vice president, Tadanori Aratani. He was 66 years old.
JGC officials say Aratani joined the company in 1971 and worked in a number of new projects mainly in Japan.
Aratani became vice president in 2009. Since he stepped down last June, he was the firm’s top advisor.
Aratani was at the Algerian plant to meet senior officials of a British oil company on Wednesday last week, when the hostage crisis started.
