Japan Earthquake and tsunami

The number of victims of the devastating earthquake on March 11 in the north-east of Japan and the subsequent tsunami has exceeded 11.2 thousand.

According to latest information, the death toll has reached 11 thousand 232 people.

Previously reported that the number of fatalities barely exceeds 11,000.

The worst hit province Miyagi - it found more than 6,8 thousands of dead bodies. In the province of Iwate confirmed the death of more than 3,3 thousand people, Fukushima elements killed over a thousand people.

List of missing persons decreased slightly and now stands at 16 000 361 people. Thus, the total number of dead and missing in the disaster is approaching 28 thousand people.

After the tsunami and earthquake on the nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1" was recorded a series of accidents caused by failure of the cooling system. As a result of incidents at nuclear power plants revealed several leaks of radiation, forcing authorities to evacuate people from the 20-kilometer zone around the plant, as well as a ban on flights over the station within a radius of 30 kilometers. She later appeared information about the discovery in some parts of Japan, the radioactive elements, including isotopes of iodine and cesium in the air, sea and drinking water, as well as in products.