Hand-built shelter saves 60 people in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Yoshifumi Sato, 76, stands in front of his self-made shelter in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 7, 2011. Sato's shelter built on a high hill spared the lives of some 60 residents who took refuge there when the killer tsunami hit the city on March 11, inundating a designated evacuation site nearby and killing many. The evacuees at Sato's shelter were stranded there for about three days but were able to survive on stockpiled food and water.

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