School staff pray for young sisters found dead

School staff pray for young sisters found dead

OKAYAMA, Japan - School staff on Feb. 10 pray for Akise Haruna, a second-grader at an elementary school in Saku, Okayama Prefecture, and her younger sister Rise, who were found dead the previous day on a wooded slope in the village of Higashiawakura in the prefecture. Police are probing the possibility that the girls got lost along the way and died of exposure in the cold weather.

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