3-day intensive search begins

3-day intensive search begins

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces and the Okayama prefectural police clasp their hands in prayer for the body of a person found during a search in an inundated area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, 2011, the first day of a three-day intensive search the SDF and the U.S. military are conducting for those still missing three weeks after the March 11 devastating tsunami. Members of the Japanese police, the Japan Coast Guard and fire departments are also taking part.

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