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The provisional record of heavy rains that have fallen in Japan in recent days, the most violent in over 30 years, reached 122 dead on Tuesday, the government said.
Several residents begin removing debris from their home after recorded floods in Kurashiki, Japan. Continues the search for some 80 missing by one of the worst natural disasters of this kind in the country in recent decades. EFE / Jiji Press
On Monday, the Japanese government announced that the record of heavy rains recorded between Friday and Sunday, already rises to 122 people. Search operations continue in the west of the archipelago, where dozens of people are still missing.
"Record rains in many parts of the country have caused river overflows and caused large-scale floods and landslides in several areas," said the cabinet secretary last Sunday (19659006). Sunday, they reached record levels in 93 observation points of 14 prefectures
The rainfall, which lasted three days, caused heavy floods, landslides and other serious damage that left many inhabitants trapped. , despite the fact that the authorities had recommended the evacuation of millions of people.
After the emergency, some 73,000 firefighters, police and soldiers went to work in the various provinces affected, on sometimes very rough terrain.
they work 24 hours a day, "said Sunday to AFP Yoshihide Fujitani, a disaster management officer from Hiroshima Prefecture.
" We are also taking care of the evacuees and we are trying to recover vital infrastructure such as the water and gas network, "Fujitani told AFP." We are doing everything we can. "
Up to 39 at present, some 17 000 people still have no power and telephone lines fall on several prefectures
. in the west of the archipelago where 100 people died because of rains, where rescuers look for missing people in mud-covered neighborhoods and among the rubble of homes
those of Panasonic, Mitsubishi Motors and Mazda) had to stop production in the region , like services like Amazon.
In rai its of the seriousness of the situation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, decided to cancel his tour of Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, according to local media, announced Monday.
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