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North China blizzard kills third Japanese

(China Daily)

13:32, November 06, 2012

A resident in Beijing's Yanqing county clears snow in front of his house on Monday. The biggest snowfall the county has seen in 52 years caused power outages in 57 villages, brought down thousands of trees and killed numerous livestock. Cui Meng / China Daily

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The body of a third Japanese tourist was retrieved on Monday after a group of six people disappeared on a snow-covered mountain in North China's Hebei province.

Rescuers retrieved the body of 76-year-old male tourist Shunichiro Yanai at a mountain in Huailai county on Monday afternoon, Xinhua News Agency reported.

On Sunday night, China News Service reported, citing sources at the county's publicity bureau, that three of the Japanese tourists had died.

Heavy snowfall hit parts of North China on Sunday, bringing temperatures down by as much as 14 degrees to below zero in some areas.

Yanai was stranded in the blizzard at an undeveloped mountain area with three other Japanese citizens, a Chinese tour guide, and a local guide after touring an unrestored section of the Great Wall on Saturday night. The local guide who was with the group left to get help, and didn't suffer any injuries.

Earlier, two female Japanese tourists, aged 62 and 68, died before rescuers could get to them on Sunday.

The other Japanese citizen, who is 59, and 25-year-old Chinese citizen Ming Pingming - who studied in Japan and is now a tour guide in a Japanese travel agency - survived with only minor injuries.

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