Monday, April 4, 2011

Increase to 12 thousand 157 dead in quake in Japan

.- The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 in northeastern Japan rose today to 12 thousand 157, while other 15 000 496 people still missing, police at last count. Further, some two thousand 100 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 431 and there is still more than six thousand 300 people unaccounted for, while in Iwate three thousand 540 dead and 500 missing about four thousand dead and Fukushima is 126 thousand and four thousand missing 570. Sunday concluded a three-day major operation involving 25 000 Japan and the U.S.

military, 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 78 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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