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Houses engulfed in landslide after M6.7 quake hits Hokkaido

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A powerful earthquake in Hokkaido caused a landslide that engulfed houses early on Thursday, injuring and trapping a number of people and cutting power in several areas. A landslide along a long ridge in the rural town of Atsumi could be seen in aerial footage from public broadcaster NHK. Some…
A powerful earthquake in Hokkaido caused a landslide that engulfed houses early on Thursday, injuring and trapping a number of people and cutting power in several areas.
A landslide along a long ridge in the rural town of Atsumi could be seen in aerial footage from public broadcaster NHK. Some 10 people had been taken to hospital with injuries, one of them serious, it said.
There were widespread power outages and blocked roads, NHK said, but no early reports of deaths.

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