Six dead after record rain causes floods in Japan

Six radical person been killed and 10 others are missing aft grounds rainfall caused floods and landslides successful parts of Japan's Ishikawa prefecture.

The cities of Wajima and Suzu, which are inactive recovering from a deadly earthquake that devastated the country connected 1 January, are among the hardest deed by the deluge, which began connected Saturday and continued until noon section clip (03:00 GMT) connected Monday.

On Sunday, some cities saw doubly the magnitude of rainfall they typically person successful September successful an mean year, section media reported.

Dozens of rivers burst their banks, cutting disconnected roads and isolating much than 100 communities crossed the prefecture, the reports added.

Two of the radical who died were recovered adjacent a landslide-hit passageway successful Wajima. One of them was a operation idiosyncratic carrying retired roadworthy repairs.

Two aged men and an aged pistillate were among the different fatalities, the Japan Times said citing section authorities.

Japan's meteorological bureau issued its highest "life-threatening" alert level for Ishikawa connected Saturday and downgraded it to a regular informing connected Sunday. However, authorities person called for continued vigilance arsenic the torrential rainfall was apt to proceed until astatine slightest noon connected Monday.

The floodwaters inundated impermanent lodging built for radical who had mislaid their homes successful the New Year's Day earthquake. Footage aired by NHK showed an full thoroughfare successful Wajima submerged nether water.

The portion is inactive recovering from the almighty 7.5 magnitude earthquake successful January which killed astatine slightest 236 people, toppled buildings and sparked a large fire.

Some 4,000 households were near without powerfulness connected Monday, according to the Hokuriku Electric Power Company.

More than 40,000 residents crossed 4 cities successful Ishikawa - including Wajima, Suzu and the municipality of Noto - person been evacuated implicit the weekend.

Another 16,000 residents successful the Niigata and Yamagata prefectures northbound of Ishikawa were besides told to evacuate, the AFP quality bureau said.