Viewers Corner News correspondent learned that hundreds of homes were flooded in southern Japan and this resulted to many people fleeing from their homes and hundreds of families were left stranded. Also about two people were found dead and not less than twenty people were still unaccounted for in the flooding that destroyed homes, roads and rice terraces. In Fukuoka on Kyushu, authorities said that about six people were seriously wounded, one man who was covered by a mudslide was pronounced dead and four people were still missing. In Oita, a 43-year-old man was declared dead after being dug up from a mudslide while fifteen people were still missing. More than 270,000 people were subjected to evacuation in Oita. One of the worst hit towns, Asakura in Fukuoka, a man named Tsunemichi Motomatsu and his wife narrowly escaped dead after their house collapsed and half-buried in the mud.
Source: Viewers Corner News.