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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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We will still continue to pray for the victims (and the relatives of the victims) of the earthquake and tsunami...
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Japan earthquake miracle - two survive after nine days trapped
News from Mirror,
Japan earthquake miracle - two survive after nine days trapped
by Steve White, Daily Mirror 21/03/2011
THEY had been given up for dead by virtually everyone.
Everyone, that is, except for defiant dad Akira Abe. He clung stubbornly to the desperate hope that his frail mother and teenage son had somehow survived the devastating earthquake and tsunami that brought destruction to Japan.
And yesterday – NINE DAYS after the disaster – his faith was rewarded.
Now 80-year-old Sumi Abe and her 16-year-old grandson Jin have become symbols of hope for the entire nation.
And relieved Akira, who had begged police to keep searching, told the world: “I always believed they were alive.” The pair were rescued after Jin was spotted in the collapsed roof of a wooden house in the ravaged city of Ishinomaki.
As rescuers answered his cries for help he pointed them further down inside the rubble to where Sumi was trapped.
Both were weak and exhausted after surviving without water or power.
Elderly Sumi, who has trouble walking, and Jin, who had hypothermia and could not pull himself from the debris, were taken by helicopter to a hospital.
The official death toll stands so far at 8,400 – with a further 13,000 missing and almost half a million still living in temporary shelters.
Experts battling to stabilise damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima yesterday described radiation levels as “minimal”, despite traces turning up in spinach and milk up to 75 miles away.
To know more, go to SOURCE
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Miracles do happen!!!
Japan earthquake miracle - two survive after nine days trapped
by Steve White, Daily Mirror 21/03/2011
THEY had been given up for dead by virtually everyone.
Everyone, that is, except for defiant dad Akira Abe. He clung stubbornly to the desperate hope that his frail mother and teenage son had somehow survived the devastating earthquake and tsunami that brought destruction to Japan.
And yesterday – NINE DAYS after the disaster – his faith was rewarded.
Now 80-year-old Sumi Abe and her 16-year-old grandson Jin have become symbols of hope for the entire nation.
And relieved Akira, who had begged police to keep searching, told the world: “I always believed they were alive.” The pair were rescued after Jin was spotted in the collapsed roof of a wooden house in the ravaged city of Ishinomaki.
As rescuers answered his cries for help he pointed them further down inside the rubble to where Sumi was trapped.
Both were weak and exhausted after surviving without water or power.
Elderly Sumi, who has trouble walking, and Jin, who had hypothermia and could not pull himself from the debris, were taken by helicopter to a hospital.
The official death toll stands so far at 8,400 – with a further 13,000 missing and almost half a million still living in temporary shelters.
Experts battling to stabilise damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima yesterday described radiation levels as “minimal”, despite traces turning up in spinach and milk up to 75 miles away.
To know more, go to SOURCE
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Miracles do happen!!!
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