Tokyo – The confirmed death toll in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan rose to 8,649 people on Monday while another 12,877 are still missing.
Ten days after the magnitude-9.0 temblor on Japan's northeastern coast, the country's worst disaster since World War II, it is feared that the number of fatalities will rise because just in Miyagi prefecture the local police are saying that some 15,000 people lost their lives.
On Sunday, two people were found alive buried in the rubble of their house in Miyagi, a woman of 80 and her 16-year-old grandson, but with every hour that passes hopes diminish of finding more survivors.
Some 360,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and most of them are being housed in 2,200 temporary shelters, some of which do not have electricity or basic food items.
Among those people in shelters are 200,000 who were evacuated from within several miles of the Fukushima nuclear plant, where technicians and soldiers are working day and night to reduce the temperature of the reactor cores to prevent a massive leak of radioactive particles.
According to official figures, in Miyagi the official death toll currently stands at 5,053, in Iwate 2,650 people died and in Fukushima 691, but several thousand more people are missing in those three prefectures, which were the hardest hit by the quake and tsunami.
More than 600 aftershocks have shaken Japan after the original quake, but they have not caused serious damage so far although they are adding to the nervousness felt by the people in the region.
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Ten days after the magnitude-9.0 temblor on Japan's northeastern coast, the country's worst disaster since World War II, it is feared that the number of fatalities will rise because just in Miyagi prefecture the local police are saying that some 15,000 people lost their lives.
On Sunday, two people were found alive buried in the rubble of their house in Miyagi, a woman of 80 and her 16-year-old grandson, but with every hour that passes hopes diminish of finding more survivors.
Some 360,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and most of them are being housed in 2,200 temporary shelters, some of which do not have electricity or basic food items.
Among those people in shelters are 200,000 who were evacuated from within several miles of the Fukushima nuclear plant, where technicians and soldiers are working day and night to reduce the temperature of the reactor cores to prevent a massive leak of radioactive particles.
According to official figures, in Miyagi the official death toll currently stands at 5,053, in Iwate 2,650 people died and in Fukushima 691, but several thousand more people are missing in those three prefectures, which were the hardest hit by the quake and tsunami.
More than 600 aftershocks have shaken Japan after the original quake, but they have not caused serious damage so far although they are adding to the nervousness felt by the people in the region.
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