Many deaths caused by people falling from roofs or being buried underneath thick piles of snow sliding off rooftops
People remove snow in Nagaoka, northern Japan.has killed 17 people and injured more than 90 while leaving hundreds of homes without power, disaster management officials have said.
More snowfall over the Christmas weekend brought the number of dead to 17 and injured to 93 by Monday morning, according to the disaster management agency. The disaster management agency said a woman in her 70s was found dead buried underneath a thick pile of rooftop snow that suddenly fell on her in Yamagata prefecture’s Nagai city, about 300km north of Tokyo, where snow piled up higher than 80cm on Saturday.
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