Survivor pulled from Japan rubble after 8 days?

TOKYO -

Japanese news agency Kyodo pulls story about man who was rescued from earthquake rubble after saying that reports of the rescue were inaccurate.

According to the news agency, family says the man returned to his home to clean after staying at an evacuation center.

Earlier reports stated that military search teams have pulled a young man from a crushed house eight days after an earthquake and tsunami wrecked northeast Japan.

A military official said the young man was rescued Saturday from the rubble in Kesennuma, a city in one of the most devastated areas. The official says the man was transferred to a nearby hospital, but he is too weak to talk.

Kyodo says the man was in his 20s.

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The rescue is the latest and one of the few after the disaster, as the power of the tsunami, triggered by the magnitude-9 earthquake, likely pulled many people out to sea.

Japan's police agency says nearly 7,200 are dead and more than 10,900 are missing after last week's earthquake and tsunami.

A week after the disasters devastated the northeast coast, the National Police Agency said Saturday that 7,197 people died and 10,905 were missing.

Some of the missing may have been out of the region at the time of the disaster. In addition, the massive power of the tsunami likely sucked many people out to sea, and, if the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is any guide, most of those bodies will not be found.