Friday, March 18, 2011

Increased to six thousand 500 earthquake victims in Japan

Japanese authorities today increased nearly six thousand dead and 500 missing, and stood at 25 000 redeemed by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Friday, while there is increasing supply problems for survivors. Total of three thousand 722 confirmed dead, more than a thousand have been identified and about 400 bodies have been returned to their families, according to the local agency Kyodo.

For the fourth consecutive day, rescue teams are facing the dual task of removing rubble and ruins along the coast in search of bodies and bring aid to victims in isolated areas such as Oshima, a small island off the coast of Miyagi province. They were found alive this morning about a thousand 300 people who escaped the earthquake of magnitude 9 on the Richter scale and subsequent tsunami.

Seven thousand and eight thousand residents in Oshima lost their homes and taken refuge in schools, but are cut off and whether they have sufficient reserves. And yet nothing is known on Friday on seven thousand residents Minamisanriku 500, half the population of the town of Miyagi swallowed by the sea, although police believe may have fled to nearby towns such as Tome.

A total of two thousand residents were located Minamisanriku alive today, so there is hope on their neighbors. The governor of Miyagi, Yoshihiro Murai, said that currently the biggest problem is the lack of fuel and medical supplies in hospitals, where medicines are rationing. The funeral homes are not enough to store the corpses, coffins and urgently need more workers complain that the constant power outages are not allowed to keep refrigerated human remains.

At Friday's quake was followed by a tidal wave of ten meters and dozens of landslides and fires that totally or partially damaged almost 80 000 buildings and houses on the island of Honshu, according to the count of the Disaster Control Department. The rescue operation is headed by 100 thousand troops from the Self-Defense Force, equivalent to the Army under the Constitution of Japan and will be joining thousands of reservists called up.

Four days after the quake, it is not clear at this point still find many more people alive, while a 70 year old woman was rescued this morning in Iwate province and the total amounts to 25 000 survivors. Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, ordered the soldiers to set a priority to assist the victims along with hundreds of foreign volunteers in emergency specialists.

"We will continue with the rescue, but there are many people who need help in refugee centers gradually we redirect our efforts to meet their needs," Kan told NHK television. More than half a million evacuees now living in about two thousand 500 temporary shelters, many of whom have no running water or electricity.

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