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Some areas of Japan still not reached by rescuers
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 7:17 PM by Stefanie Boe
TOKYO (AP) - Authorities in northeastern Japan say they can't yet reach the area along the coast where they say 200 to 300 people were killed by today's earthquake and tsunami. They say the roads are too badly damaged.
Hundreds more are missing, and the number of injured has reached nearly 1,000.
The huge waves that roared ashore after the magnitude-8.9 quake carried away ships, cars and homes, and triggered widespread fires.
A large section of one town of 70,000 people has
been burning, with no apparent hope that the fire can be
extinguished.
At least two trains were swept off their tracks along the coast, but no one was hurt.
In northeastern Japan, the area around a nuclear power plant was evacuated after the reactor's cooling system failed and pressure began building inside. Officials later ordered a wider area evacuated, after radiation levels outside the plant surged.
Photo courtesy: The Yomiuri Shimbun
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