Japan torrential rain in pictures: Aerial pictures show horror of Japan flooding
DEVASTATING torrential rains have killed at least 69 people and stranded at least 1,850 in the western Japanese city of Kurashiki, Japan after parts of the country saw up to 23 inches of rain.
By MATTHEW KIRKHAM
Express.co.uk
Sun, Jul 8, 2018
Pictures show homes and cars submerged in floodwater, soldiers rescuing stranded residents, and aerial shots show the full devastation caused by mudslides and heavy rainfall.
The rain set off landslides and flooded rivers, trapping many people in their houses or on rooftops.
The rain began late last week as the remnants of a typhoon fed into a seasonal rainy front, with humid, warm air from the Pacific making it still more active.
Japan’s government set up an emergency management centre at the prime minister’s office and some 54,000 rescuers from the military, police and fire departments were dispatched across a wide swathe of southwestern and western Japan.
Emergency warnings for severe rain remained in effect for three prefectures, with 300 mm (11 inches) predicted to fall by Monday morning in parts of the smallest main island of Shikoku.
Evacuation orders remained in place for some 2 million people and another 2.3 million were advised to evacuate, although rain had stopped and floodwaters retreated in some areas.
Landslide warnings were issued in over a quarter of the nation’s prefectures.
The death toll is the highest caused by water disasters since 2014 when 77 people were killed in heavy rain which set off landslides in Hiroshima in western Japan.
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