RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2008 Elderly residents are carried by Japan Ground Self-Defence Force members after being evacuated from an isolated village by a helicopter in Kurihara, northern Japan June 15, 2008. More than 1,000 rescue workers including troops searched on Sunday for a dozen people missing after a powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan, killing at least six and injuring over 200. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN)
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