KURIHARA, Japan (AFP) - Six people were killed in Saturday’s powerful earthquake in northern Japan, officials said.Two workers, aged 53 and 54, were working on a construction project when they were hit by a
landslide, said a local official in the hard-hit northern town of Kurihara.
Rescue teams scouring by helicopter also found a body in a smashed vehicle in the mountains, said Yuichi Hachiya, a fire department official in Kurihara.
“We suspect the person was a visitor, but that’s just speculation. The person has yet to be identified as the body is now being transferred,” Hachiya told AFP.The other dead included a 48-year-old construction worker on a dam project who was hit by falling rocks and a 55-year-old man buried by a landslide while out fishing, officials said earlier.
A 60-year-old man also died after running out of his home in fright and getting hit by a truck.
More than 100 people were injured and 12 people missing in the 7.2 Richter-scale tremor, according to officials and media tallies.
landslide, said a local official in the hard-hit northern town of Kurihara.
Rescue teams scouring by helicopter also found a body in a smashed vehicle in the mountains, said Yuichi Hachiya, a fire department official in Kurihara.
“We suspect the person was a visitor, but that’s just speculation. The person has yet to be identified as the body is now being transferred,” Hachiya told AFP.The other dead included a 48-year-old construction worker on a dam project who was hit by falling rocks and a 55-year-old man buried by a landslide while out fishing, officials said earlier.
A 60-year-old man also died after running out of his home in fright and getting hit by a truck.
More than 100 people were injured and 12 people missing in the 7.2 Richter-scale tremor, according to officials and media tallies.
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