The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 in Japan reached 12,009 people, while other 472 15 000 missing, according to the latest count Japanese police.
According to the Kyodo news agency, most of those killed under the Miyagi Prefecture, where seven thousand have been counted 318 dead.
In Iwate, at least three thousand 518 people were killed, while in Fukushima already has 113 thousand dead.
Meanwhile, efforts continue to seal the leak of radioactive water in the Pacific Ocean that seeps through cracks in the rugged Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The Richter 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that followed the March 11 devastated the northeast coast of Japan and left out of refrigeration systems at nuclear power plants in Fukushima, Fukushima-1 and 2. As a result, there were explosions in several reactors causing radioactive emissions.
The nuclear crisis has resulted in radioactive contamination of air, water and food in the affected area.
attn: Karazu
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