Japan aftershock kills two, injures 132
Posted Apr 8, 2011 06:16:25 AM.
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TOKYO – Authorities say a strong aftershock that hit Japan’s tsunami-battered northeast has killed two people and injured dozens more.
A 7.1-magnitude quake struck yesterday, the strongest aftershock since a massive quake and tsunami pulverized the region on March 11.
A fire official says a 79-year-old man died of shock and a woman in her 60’s died when her oxygen tank failed because of power outages.
The national police agency says 132 people were injured.
The quake didn’t generate a tsunami and seems to have spared the area’s nuclear power plants.
The Fukushima Dai-ichi complex — where workers are frantically trying to cool overheated reactors — reported no new abnormalities.
Many people in the area have lived without water and electricity for nearly a month, and the latest tremor sunk more homes into blackness.
