Mourning for children

Mourning for children

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - About 100 relatives and others gather to pray for children lost in the March 11 tsunami at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Iwate Prefecture, on April 13, 2011. About 70 percent of the 108 pupils at the school died or went missing in the disaster.

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