THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 11, 2023 at 18:57 JST
Rescue operations were under way across northern Kyushu after record torrential rain wreaked havoc on Japan’s southwestern main island, killing five and leaving three missing.
Around 200 rescue workers joined a search early on July 11 in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, where a mudslide destroyed two houses the previous day.
A woman in her 70s was killed, and a man in his 70s and his son in his 50s remain missing.
In Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Tanushimaru Chuo Hospital was flooded early on July 10, forcing around 50 inpatients to flee to the second floor.
By the morning of July 11, electricity and sewage systems were still not working at the hospital, and the emergency power supply was reserved for essential medical equipment.
In Dazaifu, another city in the prefecture, the body of a man was found in a flooded underpass on the night of July 10.
Around 120 rescue workers on July 11 were searching for a driver who disappeared after making an emergency call the previous morning in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture.
She had reported that water was entering her car after the Yamakunigawa river overflowed.
Parts of the railings of the century-old Yabakeibashi stone bridge were destroyed by the swollen river. The bridge is listed as a national important cultural property.
(This article was written by Shuya Iwamoto, Ryo Ikeda, Maho Fukui and Tetsuhiro Toyoshima.)
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The flooded Yamakunigawa river destroyed the railings of the Yabakeibashi bridge, a national important cultural property, in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, on July 10. (Shinjiro Sadamatsu)
