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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Japan tsunami victims have received packages of gold bullion

Jakarta (Reuters)-residents of an area in Japan last year exposed yan tsunami received the shipment contained gold bars from an unknown sender.

Gold bullion Pack appeared in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, pefektur about 10 days ago.

Kunio Suno, President of Ishinomaki Fish Market co. Ltd., the company that manages the port and fishing village, said she received a package containing two gold bars weighing 1 kilogram, respectively.

"Because of his ' merchandise ', I go," said Suno told AFP.

Suno was surprised to find the 24-karat gold amounted to two rods.

"One wrapped in brown paper, another with newsprint, both located in the bundle are bloated," said Suno, Reuters reported.

No message or address stated on the package, though the package was thought to derive from the city of Nagano.

Suno said he will use that money to rebuild the Ishinomaki fish market.

Yoshie Kaneko of Ishinomaki Revival Support Network, who also received two gold bullion said "We appreciate donors. We will not menyia-nyiakannya. "

On March 11, 2011, 9 Richter scale magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami hit Japan. That disaster killed an estimated 19,000 people and triggered a nuclear leak.

Ishinomaki is located 350 kilometres to the northeast of Tokyo. 3,000 people were killed as a result of the disaster and 40,000 buildings destroyed.

(nta)



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