岩手・宮城・福島、震災者92.5％が水死 | 英語のニュース

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92.5% of disaster casualties drowned

More than 90 percent of the people confirmed dead in the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster in the most severely hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima died from drowning while over 65 percent of them were aged 60 or older, according to the National Police Agency.

As of April 11, out of 13,135 quake victims in the three prefectures on whom the police have completed autopsies, 12,143, or 92.5 percent, drowned, it said in a report released April 19.

The agency believes that deaths by drowning, as well as the large majority of crush and injury deaths, were the result of the massive tsunami, highlighting the difference between the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, in which over 80 percent of the victims died in collapsed houses. (Kyodo News)

Shukan ST: April 29, 2011

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National News 92.5% of disaster casualties drowned More than 90 percent of the people confirmed dead in the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster in the most severely hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima died from drowning while over 65 percent of them were aged 60 or older, according to the National Police Agency. As of April 11, out of 13,135 quake victims in the three prefectures on whom the police have completed autopsies, 12,143, or 92.5 percent, drowned, it said in a report released April 19. The agency believes that deaths by drowning, as well as the large majority of crush and injury deaths, were the result of the massive tsunami, highlighting the difference between the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, in which over 80 percent of the victims died in collapsed houses. (Kyodo News) Shukan ST: April 29, 2011 (C) All rights reserved