Rain halts search efforts on Mt. Ontake after fatal eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Smoke and clouds hang over Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, as search operations following an eruption on Sept. 27 are halted due to rain. Japan's worst postwar volcanic disaster on the 3,067-meter mountain straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures had killed at least 47 people as of Oct. 2.

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