Rescue efforts in northern Japan
Rescue workers in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, are continuing to find bodies amongst the wreckage, as hopes of finding survivors diminish. International rescue teams have been helping in the search in the city, which was one of the closest to the epicentre of the earthquake and was destroyed by the tsunami. Anchor Lisa Mullins talks with Rachel Harvey in Ofunato.
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