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		</div><p>Spanish officials say they are trying to establish what happened to three freelance journalists who went missing around the embattled northern Syrian city of Aleppo.</p>
<p>Justice minister Rafael Catala told Spain’s Cadena SER radio the government has no news regarding the three Spaniards and will contact the government in Damascus over the case.</p>
<p>Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo said such cases cause much anxiety “because you have a certain sense of impotence, because you’re dependent on the movements of those who have kidnapped our compatriots”.</p>
<p>So far, the government has not specifically said if it is treating the case as a kidnapping.</p>
<p>Mr Margallo urged “maximum discretion” in the case, but called for “tranquillity”, saying similar situations in the past had ended well for Spain.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, it has emerged that a fourth journalist, a Japanese national, has also gone missing in the war-torn country.</p>
<p>With the rise of the Islamic State group and a spate of journalist abductions starting in mid-2013, most media organisations have opted to stay away from coverage inside Syria because of the risk.</p>
<p>A Spanish journalism association first reported yesterday that the trio &#8211; identified as Antoniu Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre – have been missing since July 13. They had travelled to Syria, presumably together, to report on the country’s long-running civil war.</p>
<p>“An effort has been under way since then to search and locate them,” a statement from their families said.</p>
<p>The Japanese freelancer Jumpei Yasuda, who has been reporting on the Middle East since 2002, has not been in contact for a month.</p>
<p>He was taken hostage in Iraq in 2004 with three other Japanese civilians but was freed after Islamic clerics negotiated his release.</p>
<p>Kosuke Tsuneoka, another freelance reporter, said today he received a message from Mr Yasuda in Syria on June 23, but has not heard from him since.</p>
<p>“It is not normal that there has been no contact from him at all,” Mr Tsuneoka said, though he cautioned that no-one should jump to conclusions about Mr Yasuda’s fate.</p>
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