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Fuel,food scarcity prevail in Japan for days

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2011-03-16 22:51

 

A sign announces that only emergency vehicles can be refuelled at a gas station in Sendai, in northern Japan, after an earthquake and tsunami struck the area, March 13, 2011. Sign reads: "Refuelling only for emergency vehicles. Ordinary vehicles cannot be refuelled.".[Photo/Agencies]

 

Residents line up to buy necessities in front of a supermarket in downtown Sendai, northeastern Japan March 16, 2011. Residents living in earthquake and tsunami damaged Sendai struggled to get supplies including food, gas and medicine after most shops closed.[Photo/Agencies]