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http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/82897.html

Intensive search enters last day, evacuees leave tsunami-hit areas
MINAMISANRIKU, Japan, April 3, Kyodo

Around 500 evacuees left the tsunami-ravaged town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture on Sunday as the Self-Defense Forces and other rescue workers continued their efforts on the final day of an intensive three-day joint search by Japan and the United States for missing people in Pacific coastal areas.
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A total of about 1,100 people have so far accepted the town's offer of evacuation among the around 9,400 residents taking shelter in local facilities -- more than half the town's prequake population of 17,666 as of Feb. 28.
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They recovered 12 bodies Sunday, bringing the total number of bodies found in the three days to 78, while 15,552 people had been reported missing by relatives to police in six prefectures as of 8 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Police Agency. The death toll compiled by the agency stood at 12,087 in 12 prefectures, with 7,374 deaths in the hardest-hit Miyagi Prefecture, 3,540 in Iwate and 1,113 in Fukushima prefectures.
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Meanwhile, an 80-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy who were rescued from a demolished house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 20, nine days after the quake hit the prefecture, have been discharged from the hospital they were taken to after the rescue, the boy's father said Sunday. (more)