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Japan Flooding Deaths Rise to 58, With More Rain on Horizon - The New York Times

Japan Flooding Deaths Rise to 58, With More Rain on Horizon - The New York Times

Japan Flooding Deaths Rise to 58, With More Rain on Horizon - The New York Times
Jul 08, 2020 56 secs

Tens of thousands of troops, police officers and other rescue workers have worked their way through mud and debris in the hardest-hit riverside towns to evacuate residents.

Tens of thousands of troops, police officers and other rescue workers have been mobilized to work their way through mud and debris in the hardest-hit towns along the Kuma River — known as the “raging river” because it is joined by another river just upstream and often floods — in Japan’s southernmost main island, Kyushu.

Another woman said, “I was almost washed away and had to grab an electrical pole.”.

Among the fatalities were 14 residents of a nursing home next to the Kuma River.

“I was told to run away and my neighbors all went, but I stayed,” he said, according to The A.P.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga urged residents to use caution: “Disasters may happen even with little rain where grounds have loosened from previous rainfalls.”

Some companies in the region have temporarily halted operations, with the automakers Toyota and Mazda and the electronics conglomerate Panasonic pausing operations at certain plants on Monday because of heavy rain, according to Reuters

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