At least 50 deaths have been confirmed in the rains that began on Saturday
, government spokesperson Yoshihide Suga said, but the toll is expected to rise with over a dozen reported missing.
Rivers overflowing their banks have swept away bridges and turned roads into lakes, making rescue access possible only by raft or helicopter. Kentaro Oishi, who owns a rafting business in the hot springs resort of Hitoyoshi City, said emergency services drafted him in to rescue stranded locals. “I have 20 years of rafting experience, but I never dreamed” of rowing the boat through the city, the veteran paddler said.Fourteen of the dead were wheelchair-bound residents of a nursing home unable to escape to higher ground as the waters rose.
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