Sixty-year-old man survives after tsunami washes him into sea
Japanese troops have rescued a man floating in the sea on the roof of his house after a fierce tsunami washed it away. Sixty-year-old Hiromitsu Shinkawa was spotted waving a red cloth about 15km offshore from the tsunami-devastated town of Minamisoma. The man said the tsunami hit when he and his wife returned home to gather some belongings after the quake. He told the rescuers his wife was swept away. Thousands of people are feared to have been killed by the deadly tsunami that followed Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake.
In this photo released by the Japanese Defense Agency, Hiromitsu Shinkawa, right, waves to rescuers before being rescued to a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer on Sunday March 13, 2011.
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