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Police officers, firefighters and soldiers search for missing persons at the site of a landslide caused by an earthquake in Kurihara
16 Jun 2008
Source: Reuters
 
REFILE - UPDATING WITH STORY Police officers, firefighters and Japan Ground Self-Defence Force soldiers search for missing persons at the site of a landslide caused by an earthquake at Komanoyu-Onsen Ryokan, or Komanoyu hot springs hotel, in Kurihara, northern Japan, June 15, 2008. Three people were found dead under the rubble of an inn on Sunday in the hot spring resort swamped by a massive landslide after a powerful earthquake that rocked rural northern Japan, a local government official said. They were among seven people believed trapped in the two-storey inn, whose first floor had completely collapsed when the quake hit on Saturday. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN)
REUTERS/ISSEI KATO


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