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More than 70 people died and dozens were destroyed by Japan's torrential rains on Sunday as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned that rescuers were facing a "race against time".
More Local media reported that the death toll had risen to 76, with 92 people missing.
At one point, evacuation orders or notices were issued for $ 4.72 million. While 48,000 members of the self-defense forces, police and firefighters have been mobilized to search for people trapped or injured or to recover bodies, the main government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said that most people were in the southern part of Hiroshima prefecture but it was not clear exactly where they were.
The most abundant rains in Japan in decades have caused widespread floods and landslides – a common hazard for people living in mountainous areas – with reports of flood-swept cars and rooftop refugees their homes flooded. 19659002] The Japanese Meteorological Agency, which has issued its highest level of alert for the affected areas, said that three hours of rainfall in a region of Kochi Prefecture reached 26.3 cm (10.5 cm). , 4 inches), the highest since 1976
. Abe, who set up an emergency response center, said: "Relief operations are a race against the clock," adding that rescuers "were doing their best" to locate people missing and save people.
The official death toll includes one person killed last week, when the typhoon system that caused the heavy rains hit Japan, but most deaths have been reported in recent days
Rain covered some villages, forcing desperate residents to shelter on their roofs with waters that swirled while waiting for the rescue
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