March 11th, 2011
TOKYO — Rescuers struggled to reach survivors on Saturday morning asreeled after an earthquake and a tsunami struck in deadly tandem. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the north. Concerns mounted over possible radiation leaks from two nuclear plants near the earthquake zone.
The death toll from the tsunami and earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in Japan, was in the hundreds, but Japanese news media quoted government officials as saying that it would almost certainly rise to more than 1,000. About 200 to 300 bodies were found along the waterline in Sendai, a port city in northeastern Japan and the closest major city to the epicenter.
Thousands of homes were destroyed, many roads were impassable, trains and buses were not running, and power and cellphones remained down. On Saturday morning, the JR rail company said that there were three trains missing in parts of two northern prefectures.
By Saturday morning, Japanwas filled with scenes of desperation, as stranded survivors called for helpand rescuers searched for people buried in the rubble. Kazushige Itabashi, anofficial in Natori City, one of the areas hit hardest by the tsunami, saidseveral districts in an area near Sendai's airport were annihilated.J%?
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