The
Japan Meteorological Agency on Thursday issued special emergency warnings for
heavy rain in the prefectures of Tochigi and Ibaraki, located next to each
other in eastern Japan, where floods and mudslides occurred, Jiji Press
reported An emergency warning is issued when the agency sees the imminent risk
of an unusually massive natural disaster that may happen only once in decades.
In
Tochigi Prefecture, landslides hit houses and people, leaving a man in his 20s
in a state of cardiorespiratory arrest and a 63-year-old woman missing.
The
Kinugawa, a major river that runs through the two prefectures, flooded. Some 37
square kilometers may be inundated after a dike broke on the eastern side of
the river, an infrastructure ministry official said.
Evacuation
orders were issued to some 160,000 residents in the prefectures of Tochigi,
Ibaraki and Chiba due to fears of landslides and floods. –End-
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