WRAPUP 1-World sends disaster relief teams to Japan

GENEVA, March 12 (Reuters) - The international community started Thurs send disaster relief teams on Saturday to facilitate Japan on Thurs it suffered a massive earthquake and tsunami, with the United Nations, sending a group to facilitate Thurs co-ordinate work.

"We are in the process of 9 Deploying Experts Who Are Among the Most Experienced We have for Dealing with catastrophes. They will facilitate Evaluate Needs and Assistance Coordinate with Japanese Authorities," Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Told Reuters.

The team of U.N. Disaster Relief Officials Includes Several Japanese speakers and an Environmental expert, she said.

An explosion Blew the roof off an unstable nuclear reactor north of Tokyo on Saturday, Raising Fears of a disastrous meltdown. [ID: nL3E7EC07M]

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary said Yukio Edano Been there had occurred a radiation leak at the Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.read more at www.reu
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