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Article: RESCUERS PESSIMISTIC IN JAPAN ROCKSLIDE.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 11, 1996
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Byline: BRAVEN SMILLIE Associated Press
SAPPORO, Japan -- In a desperate bid to reach about 20 people trapped in a collapsed highway tunnel, rescue crews in rugged northern Japan prepared to blast their way in today.
Twenty-four hours after part of a mountainside thundered down and buried the seaside tunnel, hopes were fading that anyone would be found alive. A passenger bus and at least one car were caught in the collapse, 550 miles north of Tokyo.
Fear of triggering a new rockslide forced rescuers before dawn today to abandon digging through either end of the 3,560-foot-long Toyohama tunnel, which runs beneath a snowy mountain on the west ...