Japan's National Police on Saturday (03/19/2011), eight days after a large earthquake and tsunami struck the country, state, number of victims are confirmed dead or missing reached 18,000 people.
There are fears that the death toll was much higher due to the disaster that swept vast residential areas along the Pacific coast of northern Honshu Island. National police agency said, 7197 people have been confirmed killed and 10,905 people officially listed as missing. Thus, the total casualties of 18,102 people on Saturday at 09:00 local time (or 07:00 GMT) due to the disaster on March 11, then that.
Hope of finding more survivors among the rubble has been reduced in the middle of the cold weather that hit northeastern Japan, with snow covering most of the disaster area earlier this week.
The death toll has exceeded the number of victims of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that shook the port city of Kobe in western Japan in 1995, which killed 6434 people. The earthquake on March 11, then now is the deadliest disaster in Japan since the great Kanto earthquake in 1923, which killed more than 142,000 people.
Latest figures by the police for a missing person that does not include local reports about people who have not found along the coast affected by the tsunami. Mayor of the coastal town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, on Wednesday, said that the number of people missing there reaches 10,000 people, Kyodo News reported.
Saturday, NHK said that about 10,000 people still missing in the port city in the prefecture of the same Minamisanriku
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