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GALLERY: the eruption of Japan’s Mount Ontake

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Central Japan's Mount Ontake erupts last week.
Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force members climbing toward the peak of Mount Ontake.
Japan's Ground Self-Defence Force's members searching for victims near the peak.
Firefighters carry a trapped hiker to rescue. Forty-seven people died in the eruption.
Rescue workers board a defence force helicopter heading for the top of Mount Ontake for a search and rescue operation.
Firefighters and Self-Defence Forces members conduct rescue operations at a lodge near the ash-covered summit.
A Nagoya City Fire Dept. firefighter walks by a mountain lodge covered by ash and damaged by volcanic rocks during rescue operations for missing hikers.
Hundreds of people were left stranded after the volcano erupted without warning.
Firefighters and Self-Defence Forces members conduct rescue operations.
The death-toll figure was the highest from a single eruption in the country since detailed records began after World War II.
Military searchers resumed a recovery operation with helicopters early on Wednesday, a day after officials called off rescue efforts because of poisonous gas and fears of another eruption.
Firefighters and Self-Defence Forces members conduct rescue operations.
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