Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Japanese death toll reaches 12 000 341

.- The death toll from the tsunami and March 11 in northeast rose to 12 000 341, while other 15 000 347 people still missing, police at last count. In addition, more than two thousand temporary shelters remain evacuated nearly 160 thousand people from the northeastern provinces of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, the most devastated by the disaster.

In Miyagi, the deceased amounted to seven thousand six thousand 530 and 422 people unaccounted for, while in Iwate three thousand 592 thousand 444 dead and four missing in Fukushima and fatalities are 159 thousand and four thousand missing 477. Sunday concluded a three-day major operation which involved 25 000 military personnel in Japan and the United States, along with police, firefighters and coast guard to search for missing persons in the areas of three provinces flooded by the tsunami.

Despite having the support of 120 aircraft and helicopters and more than 60 boats, the search found only 79 bodies from the rubble and coastal waters, as it is believed that much of the missing were swept out to sea. The search did not include an exclusion zone declared within a radius of 20 km around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, where he works tirelessly to try to contain the radiation and activate the cooling system damaged by the tsunami, in a battle that Japanese government has warned it will be "long".

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