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102-year-old man in Japan's nuclear fall-out zone kills himself rather than leave home
Saturday, Apr 23 2011 3PM 25°C
- -Man lived 25 miles from Fukushima plant but exclusion zone was extended
- -Prime minister Naoto Kan faces calls to step down over handling of crisis
- -Police search wasteland for up to 1,000 bodies of people still missing
A 102-year-old Japanese man killed himself because he did not want to leave his home in the extended radiation zone.
The centenarian lived in the village of Iitate, which until earlier this week was declared safe from radiation leaking from the crippled nuclear plant at Fukushima.
Government officials earlier insisted that anyone living within a 19-mile radius of the plant must move and either stay with relatives or take shelter in an evacuation centre outside the zone.
The elderly man was happy to learn that no one in his village, 25 miles from the plant, would have to move.
But then the government widened the exclusion zone to include Iitate - and he was devastated.
Threat: The reading on a radiation meter in Litate shows dangerously high levels of nuclear activity
'I'm not leaving,' he told his family. 'I'd rather die than leave my home.'
The old man's name and details of his self-inflicted death have not been revealed.
Municipal officials said the man was upset as he discussed evacuation plans with his family and told them that he saw little point in leaving his home at this stage of his long life.
Under the new orders, the government insisted that residents should move out because of concerns over the effect of long-term exposure to radiation from the leaking nuclear plant.
The health of people living near the plant when it began spilling radiation into the atmosphere will have to be monitored for at least 20 years, medical officials said.
Danger: Police workers, their radios covered in protective cellophane,
hold staffs and they stand guard around the Fukushima exclusion zone.
Thousands of people have already been evacuated from a 12-mile radius around the plant, which began spewing toxic radiation after its cooling systems were disabled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The new order to move people living up to 25 miles from the plant has left thousands homeless.
An official from Iitate village confirmed that a 102-year-old man living in the area had died, but said the circumstances of his death were still being investigated.
News of the death of comes as the Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan faces calls to quit over his handling of the country's natural calamities and a nuclear crisis.
Kan, whose public support stands at about 30 per cent, had sought a grand coalition to help the country recover from its worst-ever natural disaster and enact bills to pay for the country's biggest reconstruction project since the Second World War.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376816/Japan-nuclear-crisis-102-year-old-man-Fukushima-fall-zone-kills-himself.html#ixzz1KLpZxi4B
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