oh earthquake death toll that hit central Japan on Monday rose to 62according to a new balance carried out this Wednesday by local authorities.
An official from Ishikawa prefecture, who did not want to be identified, told France-Presse (AFP) of “62 dead” and stated that more than 300 people were injured, 20 of them seriously.
The last balance pointed to 48 deaths. The Portuguese Government expressed on Tuesday “the most sincere solidarity” to Japan, in memory of the victims of the earthquake and the collision between two planes, which occurred on Tuesday at Tokyo airport, according to a note released by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In a publication on the social network X, João Gomes Cravinho expressed “the most sincere solidarity with the Japanese people and authorities” for the victims of these two incidents.
A Japan Airlines Airbus with 379 occupants from Sapporo, northern Japan, It collided, upon landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, with a Japanese Coast Guard plane.a DHC-8, of which six occupants only the pilot survived, seriously injured.
All passengers and crew of the Airbus were safely removed from the burning plane on one of the airport’s runways.
Monday’s earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.6 on the open Richter scale and with its epicenter on the Noto peninsula, led authorities to activate a tsunami warning, in force for 18 hours, on the western coast of the Honshu islands. and Hokkaido and on the northern island of Kyushu.
The several earthquakes that have shaken central Japan since Monday have caused “numerous casualties” and significant material damage, including collapsed buildings and fires, said Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Source: TSF
