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Japan quake death toll at 10 as body found in debris of Miyagi inn
Sendai, June 17 Kyodo - The death toll from Saturday's quake in northeastern Japan rose to 10 Monday after a body was found in the debris of a hot-spring inn in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, police said.
The body was identified as that of Takao Sugawara, 58, the eldest son of the manager of the Komanoyu inn, Takashi, 86. Takao had been counted as one of the four people missing at the inn.
The discovery was made as around 400 rescue workers searched through the debris of the inn, where three other people were found dead Sunday after being trapped when the inn collapsed due to a mudslide touched off by the magnitude 7.2 quake.
About 2,300 rescuers comprising police, firefighters and Ground Self-Defense
Force troops are continuing to search for 12 people who remain missing.
The Miyagi police, meanwhile, said they are considering whether to count the
death of a 37-year-old man who died under the weight of books at an apartment
in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, as quake-related.
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is considering visiting the quake-hit area in the
middle of this week to assess the local situation, according to a senior
government official.
Earlier on Monday, Fukuda and Cabinet ministers convened a quake-related
meeting and confirmed that everything will be done to search for the missing
people and to quickly restore local lifelines.
Rescue workers are also searching for a missing 50-year-old man from Kurihara
who went fishing by a waterfall when the quake occurred, the city's disaster
task force said.
SDF troops deployed an unmanned, remote-controlled shovel vehicle Monday for
rescue operations at a construction site in Kurihara, where two workers died
and another is still missing.
The search at the site was suspended Sunday due to the risk of flooding from a
nearby lake created by a mudslide following the quake.
The central government's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said more than 250
people were injured in five prefectures in northeastern Japan -- Miyagi, Iwate,
Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima.
The Japan Meteorological Agency is warning of the risk of strong aftershocks in
the coming days.
The quake measured upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in
Kurihara, around 350 kilometers north of Tokyo, and Oshu in Iwate Prefecture,
according to the agency.==Kyodo
The body was identified as that of Takao Sugawara, 58, the eldest son of the manager of the Komanoyu inn, Takashi, 86. Takao had been counted as one of the four people missing at the inn.
The discovery was made as around 400 rescue workers searched through the debris of the inn, where three other people were found dead Sunday after being trapped when the inn collapsed due to a mudslide touched off by the magnitude 7.2 quake.
About 2,300 rescuers comprising police, firefighters and Ground Self-Defense
Force troops are continuing to search for 12 people who remain missing.
The Miyagi police, meanwhile, said they are considering whether to count the
death of a 37-year-old man who died under the weight of books at an apartment
in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, as quake-related.
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is considering visiting the quake-hit area in the
middle of this week to assess the local situation, according to a senior
government official.
Earlier on Monday, Fukuda and Cabinet ministers convened a quake-related
meeting and confirmed that everything will be done to search for the missing
people and to quickly restore local lifelines.
Rescue workers are also searching for a missing 50-year-old man from Kurihara
who went fishing by a waterfall when the quake occurred, the city's disaster
task force said.
SDF troops deployed an unmanned, remote-controlled shovel vehicle Monday for
rescue operations at a construction site in Kurihara, where two workers died
and another is still missing.
The search at the site was suspended Sunday due to the risk of flooding from a
nearby lake created by a mudslide following the quake.
The central government's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said more than 250
people were injured in five prefectures in northeastern Japan -- Miyagi, Iwate,
Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima.
The Japan Meteorological Agency is warning of the risk of strong aftershocks in
the coming days.
The quake measured upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in
Kurihara, around 350 kilometers north of Tokyo, and Oshu in Iwate Prefecture,
according to the agency.==Kyodo
