At least 13 people missing due to heavy rains in Japan’s Kyushu

SANAA, July 4 (YPA) – Unprecedented heavy torrential rains have hit the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, where at least 13 people have gone missing, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) said Saturday.

According to Reuters, it came as meteorological officials warned of the risk of flooding and landslides

Television broadcast footage of houses and cars submerged in muddy water in Kumamoto Province, where the Radio and Television Corporation said the flooding of the Kuma River isolated houses and swept a bridge.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency has issued the highest level of flood and landslide warning  due to rains on the region that has never seen before.

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