The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble.
Deaths had reached 98 earlier in the day, but two more deaths were reported in Anamizu, while officials in Ishikawa prefecture, the hardest-hit region, held their daily meeting to discuss strategy and damages.
Some survivors who had clung to life for days were freed from collapsed homes. A man was pulled out 72 hours after a series of powerful quakes started rattling Japan’s western coast.
The number of missing was lowered to 211 as of Saturday after it shot up two days ago.
Monday’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake set off a large fire in the town of Wajima, as well as tsunamis and landslides in the region.
Deaths had reached 98 earlier in the day, but two more deaths were reported in Anamizu, while officials in Ishikawa prefecture, the hardest-hit region, held their daily meeting to discuss strategy and damages.
Some survivors who had clung to life for days were freed from collapsed homes. A man was pulled out 72 hours after a series of powerful quakes started rattling Japan’s western coast.
The number of missing was lowered to 211 as of Saturday after it shot up two days ago.
Monday’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake set off a large fire in the town of Wajima, as well as tsunamis and landslides in the region.
