Grandmother, teen emerge from Japan debris

TOKYO, March 20 (UPI) -- An 80-year-old Japanese woman and her 16-year-old grandson were rescued from earthquake rubble Sunday, nine days after being trapped, rescue officials said.

Japan's national broadcaster, NHK, said the two were trapped under wreckage of the woman's home in Ishinomaki, about 30 miles northeast of Sendai, when a magnitude 9 earthquake struck the country March 11, followed by a series of tsunami waves.

Hospital officials didn't disclose their conditions.

The official death toll from the disasters that also created a nuclear power plant crisis was 8,100 Sunday, although tens of thousands of people remain unaccounted for, largely on the northeastern coast nearest the quake's epicenter.