In Janan, the death toll in the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami has risen to 1,700. Kyodo news agency said, the combined number of people, who have died or are unaccounted for in Friday's double disaster that devastated Japan's north-western coast, has touched 1,700. There are fears that the death toll will rise with Fuji TV reporting that 10,000 people are missing in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi. One report said, four whole trains have disappeared and are yet to be located. The building housing the main reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant in northern Japan, 250 km north of Tokyo, exploded yesterday leading to radiation leaks. At least three people have been exposed to radiation. Public broadcaster NHK reported that the three were randomly chosen for examination out of some 90 bed-ridden patients in the town of Fatuba-machi.