TOKYO - The deaths of 28459 people have been confirmed in eight prefectures and Tokyo in Friday’s catastrophic earthquake that hit a wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan, the National Police Agency said early Saturday, with the toll likely to rise to well over 10000. The 2:46 pm quake with a magnitude of 9.0, the strongest recorded in the quake-prone archipelago, also left 708 people unaccounted for in seven prefectures as of 4:50 am, the agency said. Another strong quake with a magnitude of 6.7 rocked an inland area on the Sea of Japan coast northwest of Tokyo, hitting Nagano and Niigata prefectures at 3:59 am Saturday, but the extent of the damage from the quake, which occurred far away from the one that jolted Pacific coastal areas, was not immediately known. Prime Minister Naoto Kan is set to view quake-hit coastal areas in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures by helicopter on Saturday morning and to visit the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where a reactor could not be cooled down. In Friday's quake, people were stuck in at least 163 elevators in Tokyo and nine prefectures, and 88 of them have been rescued so far, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry said. Four trains running in a coastal area of Miyagi and Iwate prefectures remained unaccounted for after tsunami triggered by Friday's earthquake hit the area, the train operator said Saturday. It is not known how many people were aboard the trains that were running on East Japan Railway Co.'s