More than 60,000 people have been evacuated in central Japan due to flooding caused by heavy rains, AFP reported. One person is considered missing.
Evacuation orderissued by the authorities, received by residents of the prefecture Ishikawa, Niigata I Yamagata in the central part of the country.
Many buildings left floodedA landslide blocks road.
As a result, a number of rivers in the area burst their banks. “unprecedented heavy rain” – a forecaster from the Japan Meteorological Agency told AFP.
Suffer flood This area is still being rebuilt after the last disaster: at the beginning of the year earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5, killing more than 235 people. That was it the deadliest earthquake since the events in Tohoku in 2011, which killed nearly 20,000 people. people.
According to AFP, rainfall in japan achieved in recent years record levels in some parts of the country.
