KUMANO, Hiroshima - Those who died in the town of Kumano in the western Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima were dealt a cruel hand of fate.
Even as just metres away, life goes on with one family tending to their garden as their three dogs bark excitedly at passers-by, another watching television, and teenagers idling time away at a playground, other lives in Kumano were irreversibly changed the moment mud and rocks came crashing down on their homes on the night of July 6.
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