RPT-UPDATE 5-Northern Japan quake kills 3, more missing
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By Toru Hanai
OSHU, Japan, June 14 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck rural northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least three people, officials and televisions said. Several others were trapped in hotspring resort hit by a landslide.
The quake, at 8:43 a.m. (2343 GMT Friday), was centred in Iwate, a sparsely populated area around 300 km (190 miles) north of Tokyo. Dozens of aftershocks also jolted the area.
"I was outside and I wanted to rush back to the store, but I couldn't move because it was shaking," a liquor store owner told Fuji TV. "Broken bottles are all over the store, and there's a smell of alcohol everywhere."
One of the people killed was caught in a landslide, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura told reporters. A second was killed as he ran out of a building and was run over by a car. NHK said another man was killed at a dam construction site hit by falling rocks.
At least four people were buried in a landslide at a hot spring resort in Kurihara city in hard-hit Miyagi prefecture, TV Asahi reported, though it was unknown whether they were dead.
Three more were missing at a work site after another landslide in Kurihara, Kyodo news agency said, adding that more than 100 people were hurt. Continued...
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