The number of people who died in floods which devastated
Japan this week reached five Sunday as rescuers continued
their search for more than a dozen still missing.
Police said they found the body of a 68-year-old
man in Tochigi, north of Tokyo, in the early
morning, the fifth located in the rescue
operation.
The body was reportedly found inside a
submerged car at a water-covered rice field in
the town that also suffered floods.
Police also discovered another body of a man in
the afternoon in a rice field of most severely-hit
Joso, a community of 65,000 residents, parts of
which were washed away Thursday when a
levee on the Kinugawa river gave way, flooding
an area that reportedly spans 32 square
kilometres (12 square miles) after the worst
rains in decades.
“We’re still investigating the identity of the
body and whether the death is related to the
flooding,” police told AFP.
Four days have passed since the flooding but search operations continued Sunday with a total of 1,800 rescuers including police, firemen, and the Self-Defence Forces scrabbling to find 15 people still missing from the town, public broadcaster NHK said.
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