Relatives wept and soldiers saluted as dozens of tsunami victims in simple wooden coffins were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday in a city in northeast Japan overwhelmed by death.With makeshift morgues close to overflowing and crematoriums unable to keep pace with the numbers of bodies,the Japanese authorities have taken the drastic step of using mass burial sites as temporary resting places.
Relatives wept and soldiers saluted as dozens of tsunami victims were buried in a mass grave