20,000 missing in 2 towns / Magnitude of Friday’s quake revised upward to 9.0 : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE
About 20,000 people were unaccounted for as of Sunday afternoon in two coastal towns devastated by tsunami after the Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake.
About 10,000 residents each of Minami-Sanrikucho, Miyagi Prefecture, and Otsuchicho, Iwate Prefecture, were missing, authorities said. Otsuchicho Mayor Koki Kato is among those unaccounted for.
The head of the Miyagi prefectural police reportedly told a prefectural disaster headquarters Sunday afternoon that the number of deaths from the earthquake would “no doubt be tens of thousands” in the prefecture.