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Tenth death confirmed after Japan quake: official

by Staff Writers
Kurihara, Japan (AFP) June 16, 2008
Another body was pulled Monday from a resort in northern Japan hit by a powerful earthquake, bringing the total death toll from the disaster to 10, an official said.

"The body of a man was recovered in the morning. We are performing an autopsy and trying to confirm his identity," a local police spokesman told AFP.

The body was pulled from the mud-covered rubble of a resort in Miyagi prefecture, which was hit Saturday by a quake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale.

It was the most powerful quake to rock an inland area of the tremor-prone nation in eight years.

The body was found in the ruins of the Komanoyu inn, a secluded resort with natural hot springs that was smashed to pieces by a severe mudslide.

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Japan troops hunt for survivors as quake toll hits nine
Kurihara, Japan (AFP) June 15, 2008
Troops on Sunday pulled the bodies of three people from the muddy rubble of an earthquake-ravaged resort hotel in Japan as aftershocks and landslide fears hampered the search for survivors.







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