Heavy rains kill 5 in landslides, floods in Japan

Source: Agencies | July 25, 2009, Saturday |

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HEAVY rains hammered southern Japan, destroying homes and setting off floods and landslides that left at least five people dead on the island of Kyushu, police said today.

A 55-year-old woman was found dead in a lake, caught in the downpour that began yesterday, and a 60-year-old man was swept away in a ditch along a road in Fukuoka Prefecture, police said in a statement.

Also in Fukuoka, a 73-year-old man was found in a home destroyed by a landslide and was pronounced dead at a hospital, while two other people were missing in the area, police said.

A 67-year-old man was crushed to death when a wall fell on top of him in a landslide in Nagasaki Prefecture, and a 7-year-old boy died in a river in nearby Oita Prefecture, police said.

Separately, two people were missing after a landslide flattened a home in Hiroshima, a local official said.

Recent downpours have wreaked havoc in the region. Heavy rain caused a nursing home in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the main island of Honshu to be buried in thick mud on Tuesday, killing 14 people.

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Heavy rains kill 5 in landslides, floods in Japan

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