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Number of victims of Japan quake close to 14 thousand
Baku, April 19 (AZERTAC). The death toll from Japan's earthquake and tsunami rose to nearly 14,000 on Monday as efforts continued to stabilize a crippled nuclear reactor plant.
Such data, according to CNN, the morning of April 19 local times, Japanese authorities released. The National Police Agency of Japan, leading counting victims of natural disaster, reported that in the refined list of 843 killed 13,000 people.
Listed as missing in action 14 000 30. In temporary accommodation centers, as in the morning on April 19, are about 136.5 thousand people made homeless by the earthquake and tsunami.
In the most affected by the disaster areas continued operation to search for dead bodies, which involves soldiers and police have reminded the representatives of the agency. An earthquake measuring up to 9 occurred off the northeast coast of the Japanese island of Honshu during the day on March 11, local time.
Tremors triggered a tsunami - wave height reached 10 meters. Disaster also caused the accident at the nuclear power plant; Fukushima-1 to eliminate that has not yet been elusive.