Japan starts grim relief mission with cities flooded, thousands missing

Tokyo - rescue teams searched for by Matchstick debris Saturday for thousands of people missing in the flooded areas in northeastern of Japan, one of the most complex relief efforts in history from.

The day after the 8.9 earthquake and massive tsunami, all cities were unreachable, and some were feared, wiped off the map. The most estimates put the death toll to 1,700, but police in Miyagi - one of the strongest affected Gebiete-, quoted intelligence services that they expect the number more than 10,000 in this region alone.

About 200,000 people living in shelters. A strip of the main island of Honshū has almost no electricity to communicate with scarce resources. Many places have no heat. Survivors to a primary school in the ravaged coastal city Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."

An explosion at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns about possible radiation leakage evacuations prompted within a 12, 5-mile radius. More than 160 people in nearby Fukushima nuclear power plants have exposed to radiation.

In other areas north of Tokyo, the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake on Friday said witness the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up whole neighborhoods. Attempts, stranded, captured or on the supply have been reach with short by damage to roads and railway lines makes it difficult.

About 9,500 employees in Minamisanriku - a city located in Miyagi 17,000 - remain unclear, the Kyodo News Agency reported, citing local officials. Telephone lines are dead in schools. Footage taken from helicopters allows a before-after comparison: where it once was a fishing and tourist village, it is now a Lake, with only some buildings of the dark black encounter.

"Also the medical relief is a long-term battle," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, a Japanese Red Cross disaster relief officials. "This earthquake is much larger than the earthquake of Kobe [1995]." And Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and it actually still not recovered fully now. "This earthquake recovery will take a long, long time."

Attempts to damage map out 50,000 troops to the disaster zone began only as Japan shipped. The coastal city of Rikuzentakata, in the Prefecture Iwate, was full of water, according to local authorities flooded. A TV reporter who arrived Iwaki in Fukushima, Prefecture said the city had gone.

A derailed train in Miyagi Prefecture, closest to the quake Epicenter, was waylaid seen against the side of a House. There were no reports on the whereabouts of passengers.

Streets pretzeled and fuel in high demand along the undamaged, to the North depends on the Government ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan is 195 aircraft and send 25 ships to the disaster area, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search- and -rescue missions.

Japanese power companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with sources in reduced offer.

On Saturday, Japan's northeastern coast, from above had regarded the appearance of a dark scar. The most violent wave a wall of water upwards of 20 meters in direction of the coast line, and a few kilometres inland sent dissemination. Prime Minister Naoto Kan respondents at 6 pm local time range by helicopter. Those on the ground told the cries from trapped survivors, houses turned to splinters and overwhelmed hospitals and shelters.

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Syrian troops open fire on demonstrators in two cities

In Dara' raised a killed, the security forces to a funeral for some of the 37 people protests disperse throughout the country a day before a human rights group said.

Several people were injured, said Ammar Qurabi runs who Syria's national organisation for human rights. Residents and witnesses in the city the group information is gathered.

More information about the shooting were not immediately available. Phone calls to Dara'a, which has shaken by violence, were not traversed, and the Government severe limitations on reporting in the media of the country.

Earlier, fired security forces to break a sit-in in the port of Latakia, in the heart of the Syrian ruling elite live ammunition. Hearing reported residents hours of heavy gunfire overnight as security forces violently dispersed hundreds of protesters.

"The shooting went for almost two hours;" It was terrifying, "said one resident, speaking under the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals." There was no immediate word on losses.

Latakia is significant, because it is located in a province, which has strong historical ties of the minority of Nusairier sect of President Bashar al-Assad.

As the wave of protests gathered steam, Mr Assad has some concessions, as local officials raise and to consider the committees, replace the country's despised emergency are offered.

On Saturday, he asked a court to examine, the former Governor of the region of Dara'a, Faisal Kalthoum and a former security officer, Atef Najib, for her role in the handling of protests in the city, a security official said. Mr Assad fired Mr Kalthoum last month.

These gestures failed to appease a growing movement, is the increase in their demands for concrete reforms and free elections in a country that is been ruled Mr Assad's family for more than 40 years.

On Friday, witnesses said security forces fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators in Dara'a, 25 people killed and hundreds injured opened. The Government said that 19 police officers and members of the security forces were killed when armed opened fire.

Neither account could be independently verified. But the Government plans for a stronger crackdown could signal claim victims. State television showed, what you say vandals setting fire to the radio and television building in DARA has ' a and shoot armed were random in the central city of Hims.

Also on Saturday, satellite, Al-Jazeera in which she held the security on Friday responsible for the violence in Dara dismissed the editor of the State newspaper Tishrin to give an interview to the station ' a forces.

An official at the newspaper confirmed Saturday that the editor, Samira Masalmeh, was dismissed because of the interview.

Since the protests seriously last month began more than 170 people have been killed, human rights groups say.

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Japan starts grim relief mission with cities flooded, thousands missing

Tokyo - rescue teams searched for by Matchstick debris Saturday for thousands of people missing in the flooded areas in northeastern of Japan, one of the most complex relief efforts in history from.

The day after the 8.9 earthquake and massive tsunami, all cities were unreachable, and some were feared, wiped off the map. The most estimates put the death toll to 1,700, but police in Miyagi - one of the strongest affected Gebiete-, quoted intelligence services that they expect the number more than 10,000 in this region alone.

About 200,000 people living in shelters. A strip of the main island of Honshū has almost no electricity to communicate with scarce resources. Many places have no heat. Survivors to a primary school in the ravaged coastal city Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."

An explosion at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns about possible radiation leakage evacuations prompted within a 12, 5-mile radius. More than 160 people in nearby Fukushima nuclear power plants have exposed to radiation.

In other areas north of Tokyo, the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake on Friday said witness the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up whole neighborhoods. Attempts, stranded, captured or on the supply have been reach with short by damage to roads and railway lines makes it difficult.

About 9,500 employees in Minamisanriku - a city located in Miyagi 17,000 - remain unclear, the Kyodo News Agency reported, citing local officials. Telephone lines are dead in schools. Footage taken from helicopters allows a before-after comparison: where it once was a fishing and tourist village, it is now a Lake, with only some buildings of the dark black encounter.

"Also the medical relief is a long-term battle," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, a Japanese Red Cross disaster relief officials. "This earthquake is much larger than the earthquake of Kobe [1995]." And Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and it actually still not recovered fully now. "This earthquake recovery will take a long, long time."

Attempts to damage map out 50,000 troops to the disaster zone began only as Japan shipped. The coastal city of Rikuzentakata, in the Prefecture Iwate, was full of water, according to local authorities flooded. A TV reporter who arrived Iwaki in Fukushima, Prefecture said the city had gone.

A derailed train in Miyagi Prefecture, closest to the quake Epicenter, was waylaid seen against the side of a House. There were no reports on the whereabouts of passengers.

Streets pretzeled and fuel in high demand along the undamaged, to the North depends on the Government ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan is 195 aircraft and send 25 ships to the disaster area, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search- and -rescue missions.

Japanese power companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with sources in reduced offer.

On Saturday, Japan's northeastern coast, from above had regarded the appearance of a dark scar. The most violent wave a wall of water upwards of 20 meters in direction of the coast line, and a few kilometres inland sent dissemination. Prime Minister Naoto Kan respondents at 6 pm local time range by helicopter. Those on the ground told the cries from trapped survivors, houses turned to splinters and overwhelmed hospitals and shelters.

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Japan starts grim relief mission with cities flooded, thousands missing

Tokyo - rescue teams searched for by Matchstick debris Saturday for thousands of people missing in the flooded areas in northeastern of Japan, one of the most complex relief efforts in history from.

The day after the 8.9 earthquake and massive tsunami, all cities were unreachable, and some were feared, wiped off the map. The most estimates put the death toll to 1,700, but police in Miyagi - one of the strongest affected Gebiete-, quoted intelligence services that they expect the number more than 10,000 in this region alone.

About 200,000 people living in shelters. A strip of the main island of Honshū has almost no electricity to communicate with scarce resources. Many places have no heat. Survivors to a primary school in the ravaged coastal city Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."

An explosion at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns about possible radiation leakage evacuations prompted within a 12, 5-mile radius. More than 160 people in nearby Fukushima nuclear power plants have exposed to radiation.

In other areas north of Tokyo, the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake on Friday said witness the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up whole neighborhoods. Attempts, stranded, captured or on the supply have been reach with short by damage to roads and railway lines makes it difficult.

About 9,500 employees in Minamisanriku - a city located in Miyagi 17,000 - remain unclear, the Kyodo News Agency reported, citing local officials. Telephone lines are dead in schools. Footage taken from helicopters allows a before-after comparison: where it once was a fishing and tourist village, it is now a Lake, with only some buildings of the dark black encounter.

"Also the medical relief is a long-term battle," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, a Japanese Red Cross disaster relief officials. "This earthquake is much larger than the earthquake of Kobe [1995]." And Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and it actually still not recovered fully now. "This earthquake recovery will take a long, long time."

Attempts to damage map out 50,000 troops to the disaster zone began only as Japan shipped. The coastal city of Rikuzentakata, in the Prefecture Iwate, was full of water, according to local authorities flooded. A TV reporter who arrived Iwaki in Fukushima, Prefecture said the city had gone.

A derailed train in Miyagi Prefecture, closest to the quake Epicenter, was waylaid seen against the side of a House. There were no reports on the whereabouts of passengers.

Streets pretzeled and fuel in high demand along the undamaged, to the North depends on the Government ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan is 195 aircraft and send 25 ships to the disaster area, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search- and -rescue missions.

Japanese power companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with sources in reduced offer.

On Saturday, Japan's northeastern coast, from above had regarded the appearance of a dark scar. The most violent wave a wall of water upwards of 20 meters in direction of the coast line, and a few kilometres inland sent dissemination. Prime Minister Naoto Kan respondents at 6 pm local time range by helicopter. Those on the ground told the cries from trapped survivors, houses turned to splinters and overwhelmed hospitals and shelters.

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