23rd anniv. of Mt. Unzen disaster

23rd anniv. of Mt. Unzen disaster

SHIMABARA, Japan - Family members of media workers killed in the Mt. Unzen's Fugen Peak pyroclastic flow disaster in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1991 pray in Shimabara on June 3, 2014.

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