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Rescuers comb through wrecked homes after Hiroshima landslide
Members of a local high school baseball team were among teenagers who kept up an all-night vigil for one of their number, whose half submerged house was the focus of floodlight efforts.
“I saw Tweets (saying he was missing),” one youngster told Fuji Television.
“We went to the same junior high school. I want him to be found as soon as possible because he must be in pain,” the boy said.
