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Japan earthquake and tsunami: Aftershocks go on as 10k missing in Minami Sanrik

42 survivors have been pulled out of the rubble

Official death toll hits 1,597, but many hundreds believed to be buried under rubble or washed away by waves

Toll will soar after around 2,000 bodies were found on the shores of Miyagi prefecture

Second explosion at nuclear power plant

Number of people contaminated with radiation could reach 160

Region hit by hundreds of aftershocks, some up to 6.8-magnitude

Rescue operation begins but some areas still cut off by road damage and flood waters

70,000 people evacuated to shelters in Sendai

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