Tokyo, July 16 (ANI): The death toll caused by heavy rain in northern Kyushu, Japan, has reached 26 on Sunday, local authorities said.
According to The Japan Times, a total of six people were still missing in Fukuoka and Kumamoto.
Around 3,000 people were believed to have been isolated in Yame after roads were cut off.
In Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, a 70-year-old man died after being caught in a landslide, while another man died in Yanagawa, also in Fukuoka, after being retrieved from a car at an irrigation channel floodgate, according to the authorities.
On Sunday, the Self-Defense Forces began flying in food and water to isolated communities by helicopter.
The Meteorological Agency said that while the torrential rains in the region have already peaked, heavy rain and thunderstorms are still predicted in some areas.
In Kyoto Prefecture, meanwhile, intense rainfall as heavy as 90 mm per hour flooded some 100 houses each in Kameoka and the city of Kyoto. (ANI)
|
|
Comments:
