Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers on Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier.

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