Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) move cases of sports drinks and water Monday in preparation to support disaster relief efforts. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is conducting disaster relief operations in the coastal waters off northern Japan in the wake of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC2 Melissa Russell)By JAY ALABASTER and TODD PITMAN
Associated Press
TAGAJO, Japan – There are just too many bodies.
Hundreds of dead have washed ashore on Japan’s devastated northeast coast since last week’s earthquake and tsunami. Others were dug out of the debris Monday by firefighters using pickaxes and chain saws.
Funeral homes and crematoriums are overwhelmed, and officials have run out of body bags and coffins.