10,000 Missing In Japanese Townlatest news update,10,000 Missing In Japanese Town;(NewsCore) - MINAMISOMA, Japan -- As many as 10,000 people were reported missing in a northern Japanese town Saturday, as a strong aftershock hit near a nuclear plant in Fukushima where rescuers were battling to control an atomic emergency.Local officials said up to 10,000 residents in the port town of Minamisanriku in the Miyagi prefecture -- more than half of the population -- were unaccounted for, highlighting the unfolding scale of the disaster.
Local authorities are trying to find their whereabouts with the help of soldiers, broadcaster NHK said. Authorities confirmed that around 7,500 people were evacuated to 25 shelters after the quake, but they were unable to contact the other 10,000.10,000 Missing In Japanese Town
An aftershock with a magnitude of 6.4 hit near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where nuclear officials earlier confirmed a radiation leak and doubled the evacuation zone around the crippled reactor.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake and 33-feet (10-meter) tsunami was an "unprecedented national disaster" and appealed for calm as fears grew amid the atomic emergency.
10,000 Missing In Japanese Town
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