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| | People's Daily Online -- 3 die near hot-spring inn in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Three members of a family of four died near a hot-spring inn in Yuzawa, Akita Prefecture,Japan, on Thursday, probably affected by hydrogen sulfide gas from hot springs, police said. |
 | | They were Rie Matsui, 42, and her sons Biita, 8, and Chitaru, 6, from Tokyo's Toshima Ward, they said, adding Rie's husband Yasushi, a 47-year-old research assistant at the University of Tokyo, is also in a serious condition. |
 | | The inn where the family was staying was the only one of the three in the area that operates during the winter. |
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