Police use radar to search for missing tsunami victims

Police use radar to search for missing tsunami victims

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers (back) search for clues to missing people on a sandy beach in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, based on data sent from a ground-penetrating radar (foreground) on Aug. 11, 2014, three years and five months since the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011. (Kyodo)

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