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Hundreds
of bodies found after massive quake in Japan
Friday March 11, 2011 08:01:20 PM,
IANS
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Tokyo:
Some 200 to 300 bodies have been found in the tsunami-hit coast
city Sendai, following an 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit
Japan's northeastern Honshu island Friday, according to
Tokyo-based Kyodo news agency.
Over 300 homes were knocked down by the quake-triggered tsunami in
Iwate Prefecture, Xinhua quoted Kyodo News as stating.
The tsunami reached up to five kilometres inland in Fukushima
Prefecture, the report said.
A state of atomic power emergency was declared at a nuclear power
plant in Fukushima but no radiation leaks have been detected.
According to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, some cooling
functions of the plant were not working and one reactor cannot be
cooled down. Local authorities thus called on a total of 2,000
residents living in the neighbourhood to evacuate, local media
reported.
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