Death toll rises to 9, nearly 1,000 hurt in Niigata quake

Death toll rises to 9, nearly 1,000 hurt in Niigata quake

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Local people who took refuge at a gymnasium at an elementary school in the city of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, exercise on July 17, a day after the area was struck by a major earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8.

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