More than 9,000 dead in Japan earthquake

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More than 9,000 dead in Japan earthquake

Published March 22, 2011 | EFE

Tokyo –  The number of deaths from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan rose Tuesday to 9,079, while another 12,645 are still missing.

Eleven days after the magnitude-9.0 temblor on the northeast coast, Japan's worst disaster since World War II, it is feared that the number of victims will increase even more as attempts are made to restore infrastructure services to provide care for those left homeless.

Of the total number of fatalities, 4,080 have been identified and 2,990 bodies have been returned to their families.

Some 320,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and most are lodged in the 2,100 temporary shelters in 16 prefectures, according to the latest figures provided by the Kyodo news agency.

Among them are the 200,000 evacuees from the environs of the Fukushima nuclear plant, where technicians and the military struggle day and night to lower the temperature of its nuclear reactors to avoid a meltdown.

The hardest hit prefecture, Miyagi, accounts for 5,364 of the confirmed earthquake and tsunami deaths.

The more than 600 aftershocks that have shaken Japan since the original quake have caused no serious damage up to now, though they keep the frightened inhabitants in a constant state of tension.

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