Heavy rain causes floods, mudslides in southwestern Japan

Torrential rain continued to set off floods on Saturday in huge areas of southwestern Japan, damaging houses and disrupting transportation a day after a landslide killed one individual and left two others lacking.
In the southern metropolis of Kurume, rivers overflowed and residents evacuated from their houses on rubber boats as rescue employees pulled them whereas wading by muddy water.
Heavy rain has dumped on southern Japan this week, and the Japan Meteorological Agency stated extra rain is anticipated within the coming days as a entrance is caught above the Japanese archipelago.
The company expanded heavy rain and mudslide warnings within the Kyushu area to different elements of Japan, together with Hiroshima, because the rain entrance slowly moved eastward, bringing downpours to the traditional capital of Kyoto and Nagao in central Japan.
The rains triggered a mudslide Friday within the metropolis of Unzen in Nagasaki prefecture, burying 4 individuals. One of these buried was killed and one other was significantly injured. Rescue employees are looking for the 2 others.
Another mudslide in Hiroshima late Friday left one individual significantly injured.
Dozens of houses across the nation have been broken by floods and mudslides, in keeping with the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
Local authorities have issued the highest-level catastrophe alert for elements of Kyushu and Hiroshima, affecting about 1.4 million individuals, although evacuation will not be obligatory.

“Shinknsen” super-express trains connecting the southern metropolis of Hakata and Osaka within the west have briefly suspended, in keeping with West Japan Railway Co.