Japanese quake- Untold hundreds feared dead and unnaccounted for
Posted by JAC on 3/11/2011, 12:53 pm



March 11, 2011 - Tokyo

A ship carrying about 100 people was swept away by the huge tsunami that hit Japan on Friday and its fate was unknown, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing Miyagi prefecture police. The ship was owned by a shipbuilder in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, said Kyodo News. There is also a passenger train with an unknown number of people aboard which is still unaccounted for in the tsunami-hit part of coastal Japan. Police also claim they have found 200 to 300 bodies on the coast of Sendai. No further information was immediately available from Japanese media or prefectural police which AFP reached by telephone. Friday's massive quake struck just under 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Tokyo, creating a 10-metre (33 feet) tsunami wave that hit the Pacific coast of Honshu island near Sendai city. The monster wave wreaked vast destruction, smashing ships into towns and tearing away entire houses. Television footage shot from a helicopter showed a large whirlpool offshore created by the tsunami that tossed around ships. Meanwhile, millions of people in greater Tokyo were stranded far away from home on Friday evening after Japan's biggest earthquake on record shut down the capital's massive subway system. Countless workers, who had earlier fled violently swaying office blocks, found themselves stuck far from their families - and unable to speak to them because the overloaded mobile phone system could not carry most calls. Sirens wailed through Tokyo, television helicopters buzzed overhead and people rushed to the city's ubiquitous 24-hour convenience stores, quickly emptying shelves of bento boxes, sandwiches and instant noodle cups.

-Deccan Chronicle


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