The Metropolitan Police Department of Tokyo has introduced two large trucks to be used for autopsies in case of disasters such as a powerful earthquake hitting the Japanese capital, informed sources said Wednesday.
The trucks, which cost 14 million yen each, will carry tents and water purification equipment to disaster-hit areas, the sources said.
The MPD assumes that it could face difficulties conducting on-site postmortem examinations for a large number of victims in the event of large-scale disasters. In each of the tents, autopsies can be conducted on three bodies at the same time, according to the sources.
Each of the trucks weighs about 5.1 tons and has the maximum loading capacity of 2.8 tons. The police department plans to introduce more such trucks, the sources said.
When the 9.0-magnitude quake and huge tsunami hit northeastern Japan in March 2011, police officers for identifying bodies found it difficult to carry out their activities partly because facilities for housing bodies were destroyed and there was a lack of washing water.
Wednesday 7 February 2013 http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2013020600830
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