Rescue after 9 days

Rescue after 9 days

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Sumi Abe, 80, is transferred to a hospital after being rescued along with her 16-year-old grandson from their demolished house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 20, 2011, nine days after a quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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