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Japan: Search for missing persons intensifies after second earthquake

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Authorities in Japan have intensified search for missing persons as thousands of rescue workers scan through the debris strewn southern village in Japan for about half a dozen missing people.
Japan government has informed that U.S. military aircraft would join the relief mission for communities devastated by two powerful earthquakes that killed 41 people.
The search is concentrated in Minamiaso, which means South Aso, a village in a mountainous area southwest of 1,592-meter (5,223-foot) Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan.
It has proven difficult to access the area east of Kumamoto, a city of 740,000 on the southwestern island of Kyushu after landslides from the second earthquake early Saturday morning blocked roads and destroyed bridges.
Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister said in Tokyo that the Defense Ministry is working with the U.S. military to start aid flights.
“We are extremely grateful, and we would like to coordinate quickly and have the emergency relief be transported in as soon as possible,” he said.
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