Rescuers dig through huge landslides triggered by Japanese earthquake as death toll climbs

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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.

View Pictures and Read More At: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6141561/Toll-Japan-quake-rises-16-hopes-fade-survivors.html