2 missing TEPCO workers found dead at troubled nuclear plant (tsunami'd)

[uppityperson]

Sounds like they've been so busy trying to stop the nuke reactor problem that they haven't had time or manpower to search for these guys. RIP to them.


http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/82838.html

Two employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. who had been missing since the March 11 quake and tsunami have been found dead at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the utility said Sunday, adding that they died of bleeding from multiple wounds.

The two, who had been inspecting the No. 4 reactor's turbine building, are believed to have died around 4 p.m. on March 11, after a massive tsunami triggered by the 2:46 p.m. quake struck the site.

It is the first time that workers of the firm known as TEPCO have been confirmed to have died at the plant crippled by the magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami that is continuing to release high-level radiation in Japan's worst nuclear crisis.

The bodies of Kazuhiko Kokubo, 24, and Yoshiki Terashima, 21, were found Wednesday afternoon in a power panel room at the No. 4 unit. Fukushima police conducted autopsies Saturday after radioactive materials were removed from the bodies, the plant operator said....(more)