Tsunami survivors search for bodies to mourn
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MINAMISANRIKU — “Female, 20s, shoulder-length black hair, possible bank worker.”
It’s a painfully thin description, like so many on the lists of unclaimed bodies posted in tsunami-struck towns across northeast Japan.
In the devastated fishing port of Minamisanriku, where thousands of people are missing but only 300 bodies have been found, it’s also a cruelly vague lead for the many desperate survivors looking for lost family members.
After nearly two weeks of search-and-rescue missions that now only uncover the occasional body in what was once a picturesque town of 18,000, many people of Minamisanriku accept that the “missing” are most probably dead..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110325com8.html
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