FLASH: Train Unaccounted For in Tsunami-Hit Coastal Area of Japan's Miyagi: Report

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Kyodo News agency reports a train is unaccounted for in the tsunami-hit coastal area of Miyagi. As soon as we have more on that, we'll let you know.
by Reuters_RossChainey at 7:20 AM

Read more: http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2

[jannyk]

1. Shit, there's a ship missing too. With what we saw earlier I think whole

villages are missing.

Have you been up all night too?

[Hissyspit]

2. Yup.

[glinda]

3. That is not good. Yikes.

[somone]

4. It will take many days, if not weeks, to get an accurate death toll

[slackmaster]

7. I won't be surprised if it's in the tens of thousands

:argh:

[forty6]

5. Trains and ships are easy prey for a 30 foot ocean wave travelling at

500 miles an hour. This should be no big surprise. We will hear of hundreds if not thousands of deaths within a few days.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Yes, as I recall, a train was swept away in Sri Lanka during the SE Asian tsunami

:cry:

[Lorien]

8. 88,000 people reported missing already.

;-(

[forty6]

9. I commented on this on another thread, in the first 24-48 hours "missing" is NOT...

presumed dead!

Remember phone service and public transportation is still out in some areas.

Power outages, as well, contribute to this number...people without power cannot report in without a battery powered working cell phone!

Transportation, especially, keeps family members stranded, or otherwise unaccounted-for.