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Posted by: Daniela Socolovschi

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04 July 2020 / 12:42

200,000 flee floods in Kumamoto and Kagoshima provinces Japan

Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan’s south-west have been urged to get to safety due to severe flooding and landslides caused by torrential rain, 7news.com reports.

Authorities in Kumamoto and Kagoshima provinces on one of Japan’s main islands, Kyushu, ordered more than 200,000 people to leave their homes and seek refuge on Saturday.

Entire residential areas stood under water, parts of houses were swept away and trees were ripped out at the roots.

Local media reported that two people in hard-hit Kumamoto who had been buried by a landslide showed no life signs.

Meteorologists in Tokyo issued the highest warning level for many areas.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced at an emergency meeting that around 10,000 soldiers would be sent into affected areas and emergency supplies would be distributed.

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