90-year-old woman rescued 5 days after earthquake in Japan

Kyodo News reported that the woman was rescued from a collapsed house in Suzu City (Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan), five days after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck nearby. A relative said the rescued woman was 90 years old.

Street in Suzu city on January 6

Suzu City was one of the coastal areas hardest hit by the earthquake. The disaster caused extensive damage in Ishikawa Prefecture, and officials in Wajima City, also in the same prefecture, believe there are about 100 locations where people are still trapped under collapsed buildings.

As of the afternoon of January 6, 126 people had died and 210 were still missing as rescue operations were hampered by rain and hail. According to forecasts, the rain will continue until the end of January 7 and then snow will fall in the area.

The site where a 90-year-old woman was rescued from a collapsed house in Suzu

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Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has ordered officials from relevant ministries and agencies to "conduct rescue operations persistently and thoroughly to save as many lives as possible".

Authorities are still struggling to deliver relief supplies due to quake-damaged roads in Ishikawa, where about 30,000 people are staying in about 370 shelters, some without running water to flush toilets. About 5,400 members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces have been deployed to affected areas.

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The Ishikawa government is planning to build temporary housing for affected residents, but that won’t happen until next week. Meanwhile, aftershocks continued to rock the Noto Peninsula, including a 5.3-magnitude tremor on the morning of January 6.

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