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The government set up a contact office in the crisis management center of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office, which intends to visit the areas affected by the disaster on Wednesday. The head of government ordered "the priority to save human life and to send rescue teams without delay".
Floods in Japan
According to the government crisis management agency, nearly 5,000 people are involved in the search for jailed and injured persons and in the extraction of corpses. soldiers, police and firefighters.
Evacuation orders were issued to nearly 2 million people, and about 4 million evacuations were recommended. Rainfall and landslide warnings concern 19 prefectures.
Heavy rains since last Thursday have caused floods, but authorities warn of possible storms and thunderstorms. The scorching sun and temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, in turn, raise concerns about heart attacks among residents in areas without access to water and electricity. According to Reuters, there are not 13,000 electricity beneficiaries, and hundreds of thousands of people have been deprived of running water.
This is the biggest meteorological disaster in Japan since 1982.
RadioZET.pl/PAP/KM
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