Death toll from Japan’s disasters over 8,000; more than 12,000 missing

[Still a Democrat]

The official death toll in Japan soared past the 8,000 mark Sunday, nine days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami ravaged the northeast coast. Yet amid this grim reality came a piercing note of uplift when rescuers reached an 80-year-old woman and her 16-year-old grandson trapped in a house in a village that had mostly been swept away by the March 11 tsunami.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/deat...story.html

[nofurylike]

thank you for posting this, Still a Democrat. heartbreaking.

i am deeply, deeply sorry to say that they have just announced another estimate:

Toll in Japan’s triple disaster climbs: an estimated 18,000 deaths ...
March 21, 12:35 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/t...story.html

[Still a Democrat]

(03-20-2011 11:19 PM)nofurylike Wrote:  thank you for posting this, Still a Democrat. heartbreaking.

i am deeply, deeply sorry to say that they have just announced another estimate:

Toll in Japan’s triple disaster climbs: an estimated 18,000 deaths ...
March 21, 12:35 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/t...story.html

There was one estimate very early on of 80,000 dead. Sadly it's not as inaccurate as it seemed.

[nofurylike]

(03-21-2011 06:28 AM)Still a Democrat Wrote:  There was one estimate very early on of 80,000 dead. Sadly it's not as inaccurate as it seemed.

omg, i hadn't heard that. heartbreaking.
devastating.

thank you for posting about it, Still a Democrat.