TOKYO – Japan’s National Police Agency confirmed the death toll of 7,700 after last week's earthquake and tsunami; while an additional 11,651 people were missing and 2,612 were injured, CNN reports citing sources from Japan's National Police Agency.
Keeping in view the 2004 tsunami in Indian Ocean; rescue experts fear that there may also be a significant percentage of missing people that might be swept away by the waves of powerful tsunami and most of such bodies will never found.
Some of the missing may have been out of the region at the time of the disaster. In addition, the massive power of the tsunami is likely to have sucked many people out to sea. If the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is any guide, most of those bodies will not be found.
On the other side; signs of nuclear contamination leaking out of tsunami-ravaged power plant started to appear in the food items. Japan government is concerned as radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the facility exceeded government safety limits.
Japanese official sources, though, maintained that the small amounts of radiation - with traces also found in tap water in Tokyo - had no instant health threat, and said the situation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, while still unpredictable, appeared to be coming under control after near-constant dousing of water to prevent spent fuel rods from burning up.
As reported earlier here; a team of emergency workers are also trying to restore the power supply connections of the cooling system of the power plants and, reportedly, the work is almost completed and it will start working very soon at least partially.
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