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  • 7 May 2012, 19:16

Teenager Dead As Tornado Rips Through Japan

A tornado has killed one person and left more than 3,000 homes in Japan without electricity.

Clean-up operations are underway across the prefectures of Ibaraki and Tochigi, near Tokyo, where around 900 homes were damaged.

Telephone poles were broken and cars and houses destroyed along its nine-mile path.

A 14-year-old boy died after being crushed when his house collapsed in the storm and dozens more have been injured.

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