'Race against time' in Japan floods, 50 feared dead
A person walks in a flooded street near a railway station in Saga, Japan July 6, 2020. — Kyodo pic via Reuters
“We are racing against time,” Yutaro Hamasaki, a Kumamoto official, told AFP early today this morning. Nobuko Murakami, a 78-year-old woman whose house was destroyed by landslides, told local media: “I couldn't sleep as the sound of the rain was deafening. I have lived here for more than 50 years, but I have never seen such heavy rain. I wonder when I can get back home.”
A rescue worker who searched the facility told NHK: “The ground floor was filled with water and we couldn't get into it. Some people managed to evacuate to the first floor. I've never experienced anything like this in my life.”Compared to many other nations, Japan has been relatively lightly affected by the pandemic, with just under 20,000 cases and fewer than 1,000 deaths.
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