Quake donations crippled ATMs: Japan bank

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AP
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Sun, 2011-03-27 01:04

Mizuho Bank spokesman Gaku Deguchi said the outage affected more than 1.16 million transactions worth 830 billion yen ($10 billion).
Mizuho’s automatic teller machines stopped nationwide on March 16, five days after the killer quake and tsunami decimated much of northern Japan. The bank said the machines have been operating normally since Tuesday.
Deguchi declined to give details on the number of quake donations.
Police said the death toll from the March 11 disaster surpassed the 10,000 mark Friday, and it could jump as more than 17,400 people are still missing.

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