Japan death toll expected to soar past 10,000; nuclear threat looms amid massive blackouts

Flames and smoke rise from a petroleum refining plant next to a heating power station in Shiogama, in northern Japan.

The death toll from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami on Friday is expected to exceed 10,000, Japanese news services announced Sunday.

There are already 1,300 confirmed dead and 10,000 people are missing in just one town.

The nuclear threat also loomed over the parts of the ravaged country.

About 190 people were within a six-mile radius of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant when its roof blew off Saturday, raising radiation levels rose. Officials have confirmed 22 people have been contaminated.

With 300,000 people already displaced, the lack of electricity and fuel was hitting survivors and resident around the country hard.

At least 2 million people in Japan's freezing cold northern region were completely without power....

Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/03

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