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Military search teams pulled a young man from a crushed house Saturday, eight days after an earthquake and tsunami wrecked northeast Japan.
The young man, found in the rubble in Kesennuma city, was too weak to talk and was immediately transferred to a nearby hospital, said a military official. The official, who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to speak to the media, had no other details.
Kyodo, the Japanese news agency, said the man was in his 20s.
The rescue is the latest and one of the few after the March 11 disaster, as the power of the tsunami, triggered by the magnitude-9 earthquake, likely pulled many people out to sea.
The National Police Agency raised the death toll Saturday, reporting that 7,197 people had died — exceeding the deaths from the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Another 10,905 were reported missing, the police agency said.Military search teams pulled a young man from a crushed house Saturday, eight days... more
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Fifteen people have been found dead, many of them in the Lockyer Valley, which was decimated by a wall of water that rushed through it this week, while 51 remain missing.
Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts said the force of the water had carried victims a long way.
http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/awesome-brisbane-floodsvideo/Fifteen people have been found dead, many of them in the Lockyer Valley, which was... more
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Rescue services are complaining that a new generation of GPS tracking devices are leading hikers and trackers to take risks they are unprepared for. Matt Scharper, who coordinates Search and Rescue operations for the state of California, offers his insight.Rescue services are complaining that a new generation of GPS tracking devices are... more
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Search and rescue workers had expected the worst when they went looking for two under-equipped hikers who spent 18 days in the wilderness.
Search and rescue workers had expected the worst when they went looking for two... more
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