Batterway: Heavy rains in Japan kill two, three missing

Heavy rains in Japan kill two, three missing

By Manager Online

15 July 2010 13:00

A woman tries to fix her umbrella in Tokyo. Heavy rains have killed two women in western Japan and left three people missing, local officials said Thursday, as the weather agency warned of the risk of more floods and landslides. (AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

July 15, 2010
TOKYO (AFP) - Heavy rains have killed two women in western Japan and left three people missing, local officials said Thursday, as the weather agency warned of the risk of more floods and landslides.

Police said a woman, 72, had died in a mudslide, a day after the body of a 77-year-old woman was pulled from a river, both in Hiroshima prefecture.

Torrential rains have for days battered western Japan, including Kyushu island, leaving vast areas of farmland flooded. Authorities had issued evacuation advisories for some 300,000 people as of late Wednesday.

Three more people were listed missing Thursday -- two elderly women in Hiroshima and an 82-year-old man in neighbouring Shimane prefecture.

The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast up to 50 millimetres (two inches) of rain an hour Thursday, warning of more possible mudslides and flooding.

Last year 25 people died in the same region after torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides, including one that devastated a retirement home.

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