Thursday, March 17, 2011

Go up to two thousand 414 the death toll in Japan

Japanese authorities today increased the dead two thousand 414 thousand 118 and three missing in the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Friday in the Northeast, according to the latest count of the police. However, it is believed that the final number of victims may be much higher, since some municipalities concerned have provided data to several thousand missing or dead.

Still not been located since Friday to nine thousand residents Minamisanriku 500 inhabitants, half of the population of people of the province of Miyagi swept by the tsunami, but neither is possible that they have taken refuge in nearby villages. On the coast of that province were found about two thousand dead and another 200 or 300 bodies were found in the capital, Sendai, according to Kyodo.

Neither knows the whereabouts of eight thousand residents Otsuchi coastal town in the province of Iwate. About 100 thousand Japanese soldiers, aided by foreign volunteers in rescue specialists continue combing the devastated areas for survivors trapped under debris or swept out to sea by a giant wave that reached ten feet high.

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