Rescue staff have combed the debris-strewn banks of a river in central Japan for victims after flooding and landslides swept away houses and killed at the very least six folks.
Heavy rains lashed the Noto Peninsula, an space nonetheless recovering from a devastating earthquake in January, over the weekend, turning the Tsukada River right into a muddy torrent that flooded roads and a distant village.
When the skies lastly cleared, police and firefighters from throughout Japan have been joined by residents and the daddy of a 14-year-old lady who’s one in every of seven folks nonetheless lacking or whose situation stays unknown.
Public broadcaster NHK and different Japanese media stated six folks have been killed.
Rain has lashed the area since Saturday, with greater than 540 millimetres (21 inches) recorded in Wajima metropolis over 72 hours, the heaviest steady rainfall since comparative knowledge turned out there.
Flooding hit the world because it recovered fragilely from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on New Yr’s Day, which toppled buildings, triggered tsunami waves and sparked a big hearth.
Floodwaters inundated emergency housing that housed individuals who had misplaced their houses within the January 1 earthquake, which killed at the very least 374 folks.
As of Monday afternoon, 3,700 households have been nonetheless with out energy, based on the Hokuriku Energy Firm.
Greater than 100 areas within the area have been lower off, with roads blocked by landslides.
