Rescue operation continues at hotel in hot-spring resort in Miyagi

KURIHARA, Japan - Rescuers from the Miyagi prefectural police search for missing people June 23 at the Komanoyu inn in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, which collapsed following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on June 14. The rescuers continued to search after a section of the collapsed inn was removed.

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