Pope To Comfort Victims Of Japan’s 2011 ‘Triple Disaster’
November 24, 2019
4:52 pm
Pope Francis will meet survivors of Japan’s 2011 “triple disaster” — earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear meltdown — on the penultimate day of his long-cherished trip to Japan Monday.
After an emotional day comforting survivors of atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima — where the pontiff attacked the “crime” of using nuclear power as a weapon — Francis will meet those still affected by the 2011 tragedy that killed nearly 16,000.
At 2:46 pm (0546 GMT) on March 11 that year, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific seabed just 130 kilometres (80 miles) from Japan’s northeastern coastline, unleashing a
