JAPANESE plant builder JGC says it has confirmed the safety of three of its Japanese staff and one Philippine employee in Algeria, with the whereabouts of 74 other staff of various nationalities unknown.
The company's top spokesman told reporters the firm had been able to speak via telephone with three of its 17 Japanese workers at In Amenas gas plant in Algeria.
Of 78 employees working for JGC or its affiliates there, 61 were non-Japanese. The safety of one Philippine worker was confirmed on Friday, said Takeshi Endo, the company spokesman.
Hundreds of hostages, including foreigners, were being held in the In Amenas site after Islamist militants seized the gas plant on Wednesday purportedly to avenge a French-led offensive in Mali.
It was not immediately clear if the four whose safety had been confirmed were hostages or not, but public broadcaster NHK reported they were not together.
"So far, we have been able to communicate with three of 17 Japanese" staff via telephone, Endo told reporters.
"There was a rescue effort by Algeria's military. Perhaps there was (an) intense military action. We can only imagine that our staff were placed in an extremely confusing situation," he said.
Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference that Japan did not support the use of force.
"Prime Minister (Shinzo) Abe directly conveyed his strong concern to the Algerian prime minister about this case and asked him to refrain from any action leading to the endangerment of people's lives," Suga told reporters.
"We have acted based on the principle of putting top priority on the lives of people. (But) there are some news reports about casualties. In that sense, we consider this Algerian army action to be regrettable."
The comments come as a piecemeal picture continued to emerge from Algeria's desert, where the Algerian military launched a ground and air assault on a gas complex where the hostages were taken by Islamist gunmen.
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