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Torrential rains leave six dead, 20 missing in southern Japan
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 07 - 2012

Record torrential rains on the southern Japanese
island of Kyushu Thursday killed six people and left 20 missing in
flooding and landslides, news reports said, , according to dpa.
Rescue workers had been unable to reach some of the areas where
landslides took place and where people were believed to be buried,
television reports said.
Authorities in the prefectural capital of Kumamoto ordered about
48,000 residents to flee the city, the Kyodo News agency reported.
Blackouts hit about 10,000 households in Kumamoto and Oita
prefectures, the Kyushu Electric Power Co told the agency.
Railway services and motor traffic were suspended, Kyodo said,
while some bullet train services were temporarily halted in the
island's north and centre.
Among the dead was an 80-year-old woman who was washed away and
later pronounced dead at an Aso city hospital, public broadcaster NHK
reported, citing local authorities. Four other people were also
confirmed dead.
In Taketa, the body of a 74-year-old man was found and a man in
his 80s was missing, NHK said.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said rainfall in some parts of the
island had reached levels that have "never been experienced."
It said hourly rainfall in the morning topped 120 millimetres in
Aso and reached 120 millimetres in Ubuyama.
The agency warned of more heavy rain and landslides in northern
parts of Kyushu before the downpours move north to the main island of
Honshu later Thursday.


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