The day we came up from the shelters four people were found dead on the steps of the hotel. It was apparently not intended that the guests should be informed about this, but one of the security men let the cat out of the bag. He described how he was there when the corpses were taken away and buried. When the last one was lifted up the hair fell down on to the steps, almost like a complete wig. It was the body of a young woman; her face was swollen and her body was covered with small, pimpled sores. The three others were men; their bodies showed no injury, but one of them had small sores on his chest like those of the woman. They must have believed they could get help from the hotel and had lain down on the steps when no one answered their knocking. They undoubtedly came from the villages nearby, which lie about ten kilometres inland. They had all died of radiation sickness.

I am opposed to the management's decision to suppress the news of the four dead bodies. By doing this the management has assumed the role of a superior authority to which it has no right.