Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers rescue people from a flooded area of Mabi city in Kurashiki, Okayama prefecture, Japan, July 8, 2018. REUTERS / Issei Kato in the city of Mabi in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, July 8, 2018. REUTERS / Issei Kato Riders attempt to dodge the steers and bulls of Jose Escolar during the Second Bull Run of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain, July 8, 2018. REUTERS / Vincent West Soldiers of the Japan Self-Defense Force rescue people from a flooded area in the city of Mabi at Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, July 8, 2018. REUTERS / Issei Kato CORRECTION TYPE Japan Self-Defense Force soldiers carry a boat for their rescue in a flooded area of Mabi town in Kurashiki, Okayama prefecture, Japan, July 8, 2018. REUTERS / Issei Kato [19659007] "Rescue efforts are a battle over time" the toll goes up like heavy rain hammers Japan
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Unprecedented rains that killed at least 66 people were also sown on Sunday. the city of Kurashiki (western Japan), including about 100 in a hospital, with rescuers using helicopters and boats. ] https://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/rescue-efforts-are-a-battle-with-time-death-toll-climbs-as-heavy-rain-hammers-japan-37092427 .html
Unprecedented rains that killed at least 66 people The city of Kurashiki, in western Japan, was also destroyed by a thousand people, including a hundred in a hospital. Rescuers used helicopters and boats after rivers washed over their banks.
Kurashiki, with a population of just under 500,000, was hard hit by the torrential rains that hit parts of western Japan with three times the usual rainfall in July.
Staff were waiting to be rescued on a balcony of the Mabi Memorial Hospital, while many cars were floating in muddy water and that one person was being rescued by helicopter from 39, a care center for the elderly
. Sunday of 49 after the floods forced several million people from their homes, the media and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said that another 60 people were missing, reported the national television channel NHK . At least another day
The rain triggered landslides and flooded rivers, trapping many people in their homes or on the roofs.
"We have never experienced this kind of rain before," at the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said at a press conference. "It is a situation of extreme danger."
Among the missing was a 9-year-old boy who was allegedly trapped in his home by a landslide that killed at least three other people, including a man in his 60s. . All I have, that's what I wear, "says a rescued woman clutching a toy poodle at the NHK. "We fled to the second floor, but then the water went up, so we went up to the third floor."
The Japanese government has set up an emergency management center in the prime minister's office and some 54,000 military rescuers "
" There are still many missing persons and others who need help, we are working against time, "said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
.
Emergency warnings for heavy rain remained in effect for three prefectures, with 300 mm (11 inches) expected to fall Monday morning in parts of the smaller main island of Shikoku.
Evacuation orders remained in place for some 2 million It was advised to people and 2.3 million others to evacuate, although the rain stopped and the floodwaters have receded in some areas. Landslide warnings have been issued in more than a quarter of Japanese prefectures.
"My husband could not go home from work because the road was flooded, and as it was raining, I did not have enough courage to walk. "A woman wrote on Twitter, without giving more details
The rain started last week while the remains of a typhoon fed into a seasonal rainy front, with warm air and Wet Pacific makes it even more active – a model similar to the one that triggered floods in southwestern Japan exactly one year ago that killed dozens. The front stayed in the same place for an unusually long time, the JMA said.
Roads were closed and rail services suspended in parts of western Japan. Shinkansen's high-speed trains resumed in limited time after being suspended on Friday.
Vehicle manufacturers, including Mazda Motor Corp and Daihatsu Motor Co, suspended their operations in several plants on Saturday due to a shortage of parts or unsafe conditions. Electronics maker Panasonic Corp said that a factory in Okayama, in western Japan, could not be reached because of road closures, although it was shut down for the weekend anyway. A decision on next week would be taken Monday, he said.
While the Japanese government watches the weather closely and issues warnings from an early stage, the fact that a large part of the country outside the big cities is rising and virtually all of the land is usable. make them vulnerable to disasters.
