Rescue work after quake in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Rescue workers carry an elderly woman, who evacuated to the rooftop of an elementary school, onto a helicopter of the Sapporo City fire department in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011. The combined number of people who died or are unaccounted for after the previous day's magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Japan has reached 1,600.

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