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     Japan's emergency disaster relief team recovered the bodies of a woman and her baby girl on Saturday morning from the debris of a completely collapsed building in Qingchuan County in the western Chinese province of Sichuan, hit by Monday's devastating earthquake, in the team's overnight rescue and recovery operations.     Relief workers in the relief team, the first foreign rescue team to arrive in China, found the bodies of Song Xuemei, 28, and her 70-day-old daughter at around 8 a.m.     Another person is still under the building, which is the residential wing of the county's hospital for traditional Chinese medicine, after nine other bodies were dug out earlier by Chinese troops and rescue workers, but the Japanese team could not find the missing person.     The Japanese team terminated its operations at the site at around 10:30 a.m. Saturday, and is planning to continue working ...

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