Tokyo: According to local media reports from Monday ( Sep 23 ), six people have died as a result of heavy rains that caused floods and landslides on a Japanese peninsula that is recovering from an earthquake.
Six people have died, according to a fire department official, and five are “in a condition of cardio-respiratory arrest,” a phrase used in Japan before a doctor can confirm a feared death, according to NHK and various sources.
Two people are missing, according to the local government in Ishikawa on the Sea of Japan coast, and eight people’s status is unknown.
More than 540mm of rain fell on Ishikawa from Saturday, making it the heaviest steady rain to hit the city of Wajima over the course of 72 days.
A 7. 5 magnitude earthquake that struck the area at the start of the year toppled structures, triggered tsunami waves, and sparked a big fireplace.
Floodwaters flooded disaster enclosure that had been constructed for those who had lost their homes following the New Year’s Day earthquake, which claimed the lives of at least 374 people, according to Ishikawa state figures.
On Monday, a full of 4, 000 homeowners were left without power after the rains, according to the Hokuriku Electric Power Company.
More than 100 locations in the region were isolated, with routes blocked according to floods.
Akemi Yamashita, a 54-year-old Wajima native, told AFP she had been driving on Saturday when “within just 30 minutes or so, waters gushed into the road and quickly rose to half the top of my car”.
” I was talking to other people of Wajima yesterday, and they said,’ it’s thus heart-breaking to live in this town’. She described the disaster and floods as “like anything from a movie,” and “it made me sad when I heard that.”