Sunday, March 27, 2011

More than 27,000 people dead or missing in the earthquake and tsunami in Japan

Tokyo. .- The Japanese National Police Agency has raised Saturday to 10,418 dead and 17,072 missing the balance by the earthquake and tsunami recorded on 11 March, as reported by Japanese news agency Jiji. In the worst affected region, Miyagi Prefecture, and 6,338 joined the confirmed dead. In Iwate are 3,123 dead and Fukushima amount to 904.

The balance, corresponding to 15.00 hours on Saturday (6.00 CET Spanish) includes some 244,300 affected people, including residents in the area near the center of Fukushima-1, whose reactors are partially molten. The refugees have been housed in some 2,000 shelters located in 17 prefectures.

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