Japan landslides latest: Super typhoon Maria leaves 114 dead in most flooding for 35 years
RESCUERS in Japan dug through mud and rubble on Monday, racing to find survivors after torrential rain unleashed floods and landslides that killed at least 114 people, with dozens missing.
Express.co.uk
Mon, Jul 9, 2018
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cancelled an overseas trip to deal with Japan’s worst flood disaster since 1983, with several million people forced from their homes.
Officials said the overall economic impact was not clear.
Rain tapered off across the western region on Monday to reveal blue skies and a scorching sun that pushed temperatures well above 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), fuelling fears of heat-stroke in areas cut off from power or water.
Yumeko Matsui, whose home in the city of Mihara, in Hiroshima prefecture, has been without water since Saturday: “We cannot take baths, the toilet doesn’t work and our food stockpile is running low.
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