Three-year-old dies in quake landslide

A three-year-old girl buried in the rubble of an earthquake-triggered landslide in northern Japan was declared dead today, the day after rescuers pulled her younger brother alive from the wreckage.

Workers were still struggling to free Mayu Minagawa’s body from the car where she, her mother and her brother were buried in Saturday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake, but they had confirmed that she was dead, said Tetsuya Hasebe of the Niigata Prefectural government.