Coffin of 2nd nuclear accident victim at hospital

Coffin of 2nd nuclear accident victim at hospital

TOKYO, Japan - A coffin carrying Masato Shinohara, the second victim of Japan's worst nuclear accident, is moved out of the University of Tokyo Hospital on April 27. Shinohara, 40, died at the hospital after being exposed to a massive dose of radiation in the accident, which occurred in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, last September.

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