Stranded alone inside the unheated, dark home is 75-year-old Kunio Shiga (above). He cannot walk very far and doesn't know what happened to his wife. --PHOTO: AP
MINAMI SOMA (Japan) - THE farmhouse sits at the end of a mud-caked, one-lane road strewn with toppled trees, the decaying carcasses of dead pigs and large debris deposited by the March 11 tsunami.
Stranded alone inside the unheated, dark home is 75-year-old Kunio Shiga. He cannot walk very far and doesn't know what happened to his wife.
His neighbours have all left because the area is 20km from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant - just within the zone where authorities have told everyone to get out because of concerns about leaking radiation. No rescuer ever came for him.
When a reporter and two photographers from The Associated Press arrived at Mr Shiga's doorstep on Friday, the scared and disoriented farmer said: 'You are the first people I have spoken to' since the earthquake and tsunami.
'Do you have any food?' he asked. 'I will pay you.' Mr Shiga gratefully accepted the one-litre bottle of water and sack of 15-20 energy bars given to him by the AP. With Mr Shiga's permission, the AP notified local police of his situation.
On Saturday, a police official in charge of missing persons called the AP to say Mr Shiga had been rescued and taken to a shelter. The official, who did not give his name because he is not authorised to speak to the media, said Mr Shiga was expected to be fine.
-- AP
1 comment:
oh my god. How could he become like that. If he doest khow his wife, that maybe she was a tsunami victim because 25,000 are reported dead or missing. But if he stranded alone in unheated and dark hse since tsunami took place, something is going wrong i guessed. He is very old to me. May god blesses him.
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