TEHRAN, June 18 - An elderly man and a young girl were killed, with several other people also in “cardiopulmonary arrest”, after walls collapsed in a magnitude-6.1 earthquake that hit Osaka in western Japan on Monday, public broadcaster NHK said.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -An elderly man and a young girl were killed, with several other people also in “cardiopulmonary arrest”, after walls collapsed in a magnitude-6.1 earthquake that hit Osaka in western Japan on Monday, public broadcaster NHK said.
Japan does not confirm deaths until a formal examination has been made and generally uses the term cardiopulmonary arrest in such cases. NHK said an 80-year-old man and a 9-year-old girl had been killed by collapsing walls.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government was assessing damage and that its top priority was the safety of residents.
The epicenter of the earthquake was in the northern part of the prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The agency originally put the quake’s magnitude at 5.9 but later raised it to 6.1. No tsunami warning was issued.
Kansai Electric Power said no irregularities had been detected at the Mihama, Takahama and Ohi nuclear plants after the quake. Kansai also said more than 170,000 households were without power in Osaka and neighboring Hyogo prefecture.
Live footage showed burst water mains and a house on fire after the quake hit Japan’s second-biggest metropolis just before 8 a.m. (2300 GMT Sunday) as commuters were heading to work.
Source: Reuters
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