The death toll from Japan’s New Year’s Day earthquake has jumped to 180 with more than 100 people still missing, and snow complicating relief efforts.
More than 2,000 people remain cut off since the magnitude 7.6 New Year’s Day quake, with thousands of troops, firefighters and police continuing to search collapsed buildings on Monday in the hope of finding survivors.
Earlier, 168 people were reported dead. At least 120 people are listed as missing: emergency services cannot contact them to confirm their whereabouts. The number of injured is 565. About 28,000 residents of the areas affected by the earthquakes remain in evacuation centers.
The greatest damage was caused to Ishikawa Prefecture where more than 250 houses were destroyed, and fires destroyed about 300 buildings. The region continues to experience power and water shortages and fuel shortages.
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The death toll from a New Year’s Day earthquake in Japan climbed to 202 on Tuesday with 565 confirmed injured, according to government figures.
ReplyDeleteThe number of people unaccounted for fell to 102 from 120 earlier in the day, the data from the Ishikawa regional government showed.