Tokyo (CNN) --eine search for missing in Japan, were by the Japanese and US forces, led to the discovery of almost 70 more bodies from the earthquake and tsunami, authorities said Sunday carried out.
Joint task force Tohoku, supervise the search, said it was a collaborative effort by land, sea, and three days. It was carried out from 8 am to sunset.
The 69 bodies were found between Friday morning and Sunday afternoon, said the task force. The operation low tide the floating wreckage was concentrated at the same time with spring and allowed searchers wood remains in the tidal access to time.
The confirmed death toll from the 11 March earthquake and tsunami is 12,087, according to Japan's national police force. A further 15,552 are lacking or missing and 2.876 are violated.
In one of the most devastated areas of the Northeast Japan, buses began evacuation more than 1,100 people from shelters on Sunday, local officials said.
Authorities in the Prefecture of Miyagi said 21 buses would be used to evacuate 1,120 people from the town of Minamisanriku in the next three days. More than 9,000 people taken was on the local facilities, because their homes were wiped out.
The city was about 88 kilometers (55 miles) northeast of Sendai, from the Quake and tsunami devastated. A week after this disaster, it was reported that more than half of the 17,000 inhabitants of the city was gone.
End of March Mayor urged to seven inhabitants other cities go while under rental service is built. Some residents resisted the appeal, while others in question, provided if Minamisanriku would be always the same.
"I wonder whether it is for us impossible, again in Minamisanriku," a woman told Japanese television station TV Asahi.
More than 300 other persons for the evacuation have applied to other towns and villages, but the Miyagi Prefecture Government planned no other evacuations Sunday.CNN's Brian Walker and journalist Terence Terashima contributed to this report.
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