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Washed away: Three tsunami-swept towns

As Japanese authorities continue to assess the damage from Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami, chilling details are emerging about towns washed away and massive numbers of residents gone in a flash. When officials checked in on Minamisanriku, a town of 17,000 in the Miyagi prefecture, the news was devastating. The coastal town close to the epicenter in Sendai was destroyed in the tsunami. 9,500 residents, comprising more than half of the town, are missing. The missing Minamisanriku residents are feared dead, with crushed under buildings or washed out to sea.
About 7,500 Minamisanriku residents evacuated to shelters.

About 2,000 bodies were found Monday on two shores in Japan's Miyagi prefecture after last week's 9.0-magnitude quake and a massive tsunami, Xinhua reported. About 1,000 bodies were found on a shore in Ojika peninsula and another 1,000 have been spotted on the shore of Minamisanriku town. The Miyagi prefecture in northeast Japan is one of the hardest-hit areas in last Friday's earthquake. The findings will significantly increase the death toll, officials said.