Don’t stop looking for missing people, urges Abe as Japan flood toll hits 20

Torrential rains continue to pound the southern island of Kyushu with 14 people now missing. FMTNews Japan

Residents are rescued by boat following a heavy rain in Kumamura in southern Japan today.

More heavy rain is forecast after Saturday’s deadly deluge in the Kumamoto prefecture, Japan’s worst natural disaster since Typhoon Hagibis in October last year left about 90 people dead. “Nothing is more important than human lives. Please make utmost effort through the night to search for missing people,” Abe said after Japanese television broadcast images of overturned cars, people shovelling mud from their homes and the military rescuing stranded residents in boats.

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