9,500 people unaccounted for in tsunami-stricken Japanese town

By DPA,

Tokyo: About 9,500 people are unaccounted for in one of the worst-hit areas by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in north-eastern Japan, officials said.

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With many houses, cars and crops in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture washed away by a powerful tsunami after the deadly earthquake on Friday, many of those missing may be victims of the walls of water, prefectural officals said.

The figure is more than half of the population of about 17,000 in the town on the Pacific coast.