Minami-Aso (Japan) (AFP) - Rescuers intensified the hunt for nine people still missing in a devastated village in southern Japan on Monday, with time running out after two powerful earthquakes left buildings in rubble and houses buried in mud.
At least 42 people are known to have died after the earthquakes struck the island of Kyushu, officials said, and the missing are feared buried in houses that have been engulfed by landslides.
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