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Torrential rains in western Japan over the last four days, causing floods and landslides, have left at least 20 dead and more than 1.8 million people ordered Saturday to evacuate the affected regions. A report still provisional, because the local media reports more victims still.
The waterspouts that continued Saturday to fall, including the regions of Hiroshima, Okayama and Kyoto, causing new damage everywhere , also made relief operations very difficult.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking of "extremely serious situation" called "maximum effort" to try to save people trapped in floods. The Japanese Meteorological Agency has placed many parts of the western part of the country on high alert – used only when rainfall reaches levels occurring once every few decades – and local authorities have ordered the evacuation of 1,614 million people.
The television showed, especially in the Hiroshima region, images of a bridge carried by the waves of a muddy river, rescue workers trying hard to dig in the mud covering houses, or Refugee people on the roofs of houses. The Meteorological Agency predicts that the rains should continue until Sunday in the west but also begin to reach eastern Japan.
RELEASE with AFP
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