The Toll Of Japan's Earthquake Disaster Is Now Believed To Be 25,000

Unimaginable toll: A replica Statue of Liberty stands next to tsunami damaged buildings in Ishinomaki, where officials confirmed that 10,000 of their citizens were missing.

Japan's Worst Nightmare: Soaring Death Toll Set To Hit 25,000 As It Emerges ANOTHER Town Has 10,000 People Missing -- The Daily Mail

* Ishinomaki confirms the huge number of its citizens missing
* North Eastern port town was hit by 20ft tsunami
* Fears that death toll has been terribly underestimated

The terrible toll of Japan's double disaster became clearer today as it emerged as many as 25,000 people could be dead.

As rescue crews trawled through mile after mile of tsunami-stricken wasteland, officials from the coastal town of Ishinomaki confirmed that 10,000 of their citizens were missing.

The unimaginable figure is the same given as in the town of Minamisanriku, also in Miyagi state, which lost around half its population when it was razed to the ground by the 20 foot high wall of water.

So far the official death tool has hit 4,340 with another 9,083 people missing. But there were very real fears tonight that the statistics were a terrible underestimate of those who perished in the tsunami.

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My Comment: The devastation from the tsunami is so complete, I doubt that they will ever fully know how many perished when this disaster occurred. As what is my take .... my gut tells me that the total is far above 25,000. When the tsunami hit Indonesia on Boxing Day 6 years ago, the same death toll predictions were made in the first week. A few weeks later, the full measure of how many died became known. I expect the same to occur with this disaster.