Police hunt for bodies near nuclear plant

Hundreds of police in white protective suits are hunting for bodies in the rubble outside Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear plant – searching for the first time within a six-mile (10km) radius around the radiation-leaking complex.

Police said today that falling radiation levels have allowed them to search within a narrower radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant than before. But they are working very carefully to avoid tearing their protective gear.