The fate of 300 Indonesians in Miyagi, Iwake unknown
The Jakarta Post | Mon, 03/14/2011 1:53 PM
The fate of
about 300 Indonesians in tsunami-hit Miyagi and Iwake remained
unclear, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Monday.
Data at the
Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo showed that there were 414 Indonesians
living in Miyagi and Iwake.
More than 100 were sent to Tokyo , while the whereabouts of the others
were not known, spokesman of the ministry Michael Tenne said,
tempointeraktif.com reported.
”We can’t say
whether they are missing or dead,” he said.
He said that
the embassy relieve team members who visited hospitals and evacuation
sites in the two prefectures to find out their fate
faced problems because many roads were severely damaged and the
Japanese government closed several places for security
reasons.
