100 Feared Dead
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) TOKYO, August 18. One hundred persons are believed to have been killed when two buses laden with tourists were pushed by a landslide down a 33ft bank into a river in central Japan today. By mid-afternoon local time, about 14 hours after the disaster, the police had re covered only 17 bodies.
They said there was little hope of finding any of the 83 missing persons alive. Only three persons aboard the two ill-fated buses are known to have scrambled out of the wreckage and crawled to safety. The buses were among a convoy of 15 stranded on the highway by a landslide ahead of them when a new landslide struck.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31761, 19 August 1968, Page 17
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116100 Feared Dead Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31761, 19 August 1968, Page 17
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