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The record of the record rains that devastated parts of Japan rose Sunday to at least 44, according to the authorities, with the authorities issuing new warnings as torrential rains continued.
Local media reports 50 The official record includes one person killed last week when the typhoon system that caused the heavy rains hit Japan, but most deaths were reported during last years. days
Dozens dead and 1.6 million people evacuated during floods in Japan – video
The rain, which was the strongest in the west of the country, completely covered some villages, forcing desperate residents to shelter on the roofs with swirling streams of water while waiting for help.
caused floods and landslides, and prompted the authorities to order the evacuation of two million people.
Hundreds of wounded and dozens of homes were completely destroyed by showers.
"We conduct 24-hour relief operations Yoshihide Fujitani, a disaster management officer in the prefecture of Hiroshima, said:" We are also dealing with evacuees and the restoration of critical infrastructure like water and gas, "he added." We are doing our best. "
A government official said that a special crisis unit had been created to respond to the disaster and would hold a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday morning.
at a government emergency meeting, "the situation is extremely serious" and ordered his government to "make a general effort "to rescue those affected.
Tens of thousands of rescuers, police and military personnel were mobilized to the disaster, and the meteorological agency issued its highest level of alert for the affected areas
The floods engulfed whole villages, submerging the streets up to the roof level. In some places, you could just see the top of the traffic lights over the rising waters.
"My house was simply washed away and completely destroyed," Toshihide Takigawa, a 35-year-old employee at a gas station in Hiroshima, told Nikkei Daily Saturday
"I was in a car and Huge streams of water gushed out to me from the front and back, then swallowed the road. "I was just able to escape myself. but I was terrified, "Yuzo Hori, 62, told Mainichi Shimbun daily in Hiroshima
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Several major automakers, including automakers Daihatsu and Mitsubishi, said they had suspended their activities in factories in affected areas.
The disaster is the deadliest flood in Japan since 2014, when at least 74 people were killed in landslides caused by torrential downpours in the Hiroshima region.
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