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Heavy rain in southern Japan triggers flooding and mudslides

By Associated Press

July 4, 2020

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Residents are stranded on the rooftop of a house submerged in muddy waters that gushed out from the Kuma River in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen missing. More than 75,000 residents in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were asked to evacuate following pounding rains overnight.
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Houses are partially submerged in the Kuma River flooded with heavy rain in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on Saturday. The Japan Meteorological Agency raised the heavy rain warnings in many parts of the prefectures to the highest level shortly before 5 a.m. It was the first time for the agency to do so in the two prefectures, Kumamoto and Kagoshima.
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Rescue operation is conducted in a flooded area in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, some missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said.
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A bridge over the Kuma River is washed away by a flood in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen missing and others stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued. More than 75,000 residents in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were asked to evacuate following pounding rains overnight.
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A car is stuck in a flooded road by heavy rain in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on Saturday. The Japan Meteorological Agency raised the heavy rain warnings in many parts of the prefectures to the highest level shortly before 5 a.m. It was the first time for the agency to do so in the two prefectures, Kumamoto and Kagoshima.
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A stranded woman is rescued following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, some missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials and news reports said.
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A road is damaged following a heavy rain in Kumamura, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, some missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said.
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This aerial view shows the Kuma River flooded with heavy rain in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on Saturday. The Japan Meteorological Agency raised the heavy rain warnings in many parts of the prefectures to the highest level shortly before 5 a.m. It was the first time for the agency to do so in the two prefectures, Kumamoto and Kagoshima.
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This aerial view shows the site of a mudslide caused by heavy rain in Ashikita town, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen missing and others stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said. More than 75,000 residents in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were asked to evacuate following pounding rains overnight.
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This aerial view shows the Kuma River flooded with heavy rain in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on Saturday. The Japan Meteorological Agency raised the heavy rain warnings in many parts of the prefectures to the highest level shortly before 5 a.m. It was the first time for the agency to do so in the two prefectures, Kumamoto and Kagoshima.
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A street is flooded following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, July 4, 2020. Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, some missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials and news reports said. (Yuki Sato/Kyodo News via AP)
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Areas are inundated in muddy waters that gushed out from the Kuma River in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen missing and others stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued. More than 75,000 residents in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were asked to evacuate following pounding rains overnight.
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Workers try to clean their nursing home following a heavy rain in Ashikita town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan. Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, some missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said.
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A boy helps to clear dirt in front of his grandparents' house following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, some missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said.
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Rescue workers search for missing persons at a site of a landslide following a heavy rain in Tsunagi town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, some missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said.
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Rescue operation is conducted in a flooded area following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan on Saturday. Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, some missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said.

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