TOKYO, July 4 — Japan is sending thousands of troops to join rescue operations on the southern island of Kyushu, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said today, after 13 people went missing in unprecedented torrential rains that threaten floods and landslides. Television broadcast images of houses and cars...
Rising water caused by a heavy rain is seen along Kuma river in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan July 4, 2020. — Picture by Kyodo via Reuters
Television broadcast images of houses and cars submerged in muddy waters in the prefecture of Kumamoto, where public broadcaster NHK said the flooding Kuma River was cutting off homes and had washed away a bridge.
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