Sunday, March 13, 2011

The town that drowned: 10,000 still missing in port town hit by megaquake as 275 aftershocks hamper rescue efforts

By JO MACFARLANE Before: A picture of the port town of Minamisanriku ahead of the devastating tsunami 10,000 people missing in Minamisanriku after double disasterOfficial death toll hits 574, but many hundreds believed to be buried under rubble or washed away by wavesExplosion at nuclear power plant, but experts say reactor is not at riskNumber of people contaminated with radiation could reach