Rescuers dig through huge landslides triggered by Japanese
earthquake as death toll climbs to 18 and hopes fade for 22 people
still missing
- About 22 people are still unaccounted
for in the small northern countryside town of Atsuma after
earthquake
- Death toll from quake has risen to 18
and rescuers are digging through landslides in hope of finding
survivors
- Around 1.6 million households in the
sparsely populated island of Hokkaido were still without power
today
Published: 21:52 EDT,
7 September 2018
| Updated: 07:14 EDT, 7
September 2018
Japanese
rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs scrabbled
through the mud today to find survivors from a landslide that
buried houses after a powerful earthquake, as the death toll
rose to 18.
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