TOKYO: Six individuals died after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides on a Japanese peninsula recovering from an earthquake, native media reported on Monday (Sept 23).
Public broadcaster NHK and different information shops mentioned six individuals had died, whereas a fireplace division official informed AFP that one had died and 5 had been “in cardiac arrest,” a time period utilized in Japan earlier than a feared loss of life could be confirmed by a physician.
The regional authorities of Ishikawa, on the Sea of Japan coast, mentioned two individuals had been lacking and the circumstances of eight of them had been unknown.
Heavy rains have hit Ishikawa since Saturday, with Wajima City recording greater than 540 mm of rain in 72 hours, the heaviest steady rainfall since comparative knowledge turned accessible.
The area remains to be reeling from the aftermath of a magnitude 7.5 earthquake earlier this yr, which toppled buildings, triggered tsunamis and ignited a large fireplace.
Floods have submerged emergency shelters constructed for individuals who misplaced their houses within the New Year’s Eve earthquake, which killed no less than 374 individuals, in accordance with Ishikawa authorities knowledge.
According to the Hokuriku Electric Power Company, about 4,000 households had been left with out electrical energy on Monday as a result of rain.
More than 100 areas within the area had been reduce off, with roads blocked by landslides.
Akemi Yamashita, a 54-year-old Wajima resident, informed AFP she was driving on Saturday when “inside nearly half-hour, water poured onto the highway and shortly rose to half the peak of my automotive.”
“I used to be speaking to different Wajima residents yesterday they usually mentioned, ‘It’s so heartbreaking to reside on this city.’ I used to be moved once I heard that,” she mentioned, describing the earthquake and flooding as “one thing out of a film.”
