The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on 11 in Japan has increased up to 8,649 people, while 13,262 others were missing, according to the latest report released by the Japanese police. The police have identified about 4,080 deaths, nearly half of those found in a total of 12 prefectures. The remains of 2,990 have been returned to their families, according to Kyodo.
Meanwhile, the number of people whose families have been reported missing has risen to 13,262 in six prefectures, although it is expected that some of them are in some 2,000 temporary shelters enabled. However, it is feared that fatalities increase because only in one province, Miyagi, local police spoke of 15,000 dead.
Some 360,000 people have fled or lost their homes, including the 200,000 evacuees around the nuclear plant in Fukushima, where technicians and military struggle day and night by lowering the temperature of the reactor to prevent radioactive leaks. The situation of the displaced, 10 days after the earthquake of 9 degrees on the northeast coast of Japan that caused the worst natural disaster after World War II, is dramatic, as some shelters without electricity, basic food or warm clothing, situation complicated by the snow falling in the region affected by the tsunami.
The authorities seek to alleviate the harsh conditions which include, but are difficult to get aid. "So far, we have asked the teams which give priority to rescue the affected people. Now we want to give priority to assisting people living in shelters," said the governor of the prefecture of Miyagi, Yoshihiro Murai, the most affected by the tsunami.
The Ministry of Health has announced the shipment of 5,900 caregivers in the areas hit by the earthquake, given the lack of personnel to assist the elderly. On Sunday two people were found alive in the rubble of her home in the province, a woman of 80 years and grandson of 16, but with the passing hours diminish the hopes of finding survivors.
According to official figures, in Miyagi were 5,053 dead, 2,650 Iwate and Fukushima 691, but the missing number in the thousands in these three provinces, the most devastated by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. More than 600 aftershocks have rocked the territory of Japan after the earthquake of 9 on the Richter scale on day 11 without causing serious damage. 
Meanwhile, the number of people whose families have been reported missing has risen to 13,262 in six prefectures, although it is expected that some of them are in some 2,000 temporary shelters enabled. However, it is feared that fatalities increase because only in one province, Miyagi, local police spoke of 15,000 dead.
Some 360,000 people have fled or lost their homes, including the 200,000 evacuees around the nuclear plant in Fukushima, where technicians and military struggle day and night by lowering the temperature of the reactor to prevent radioactive leaks. The situation of the displaced, 10 days after the earthquake of 9 degrees on the northeast coast of Japan that caused the worst natural disaster after World War II, is dramatic, as some shelters without electricity, basic food or warm clothing, situation complicated by the snow falling in the region affected by the tsunami.
The authorities seek to alleviate the harsh conditions which include, but are difficult to get aid. "So far, we have asked the teams which give priority to rescue the affected people. Now we want to give priority to assisting people living in shelters," said the governor of the prefecture of Miyagi, Yoshihiro Murai, the most affected by the tsunami.
The Ministry of Health has announced the shipment of 5,900 caregivers in the areas hit by the earthquake, given the lack of personnel to assist the elderly. On Sunday two people were found alive in the rubble of her home in the province, a woman of 80 years and grandson of 16, but with the passing hours diminish the hopes of finding survivors.
According to official figures, in Miyagi were 5,053 dead, 2,650 Iwate and Fukushima 691, but the missing number in the thousands in these three provinces, the most devastated by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. More than 600 aftershocks have rocked the territory of Japan after the earthquake of 9 on the Richter scale on day 11 without causing serious damage.
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