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National › Adult, 2 children die in fire in Fukushima

One adult and two children died in a fire that gutted a two-story wooden house in the city of Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, early Monday morning,… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Mon, Aug 25 2008

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