3-day intensive search begins

3-day intensive search begins

SENDAI, Japan - A helicopter takes off from a Ground Self-Defense Force garrison in Sendai on an intensive search mission to find missing people in areas devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures on April 1, 2011. The Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military began the three-day intensive search, three weeks after the disaster wiped out coastal cities and towns in northeast Japan.

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