TOKYO, June 5 (Xinhua) — Floods have claimed three lives and broken about 990 homes after file torrential rains pounded a large swath of Japan’s Pacific coast, native media reported Monday.
In central Japan’s prefectures of Aichi and Shizuoka, the place the storm introduced file heavy rains beginning Friday, injury affirmation and restoration have been nonetheless underway, in keeping with the nationwide news company Kyodo.
A 74-year-old male resident from Iwata City, who was earlier reported lacking, was confirmed useless on Monday, in keeping with native police.
His physique was discovered on the coast of Fukuroi in Shizuoka prefecture on Sunday, which introduced the dying toll to 3 in each prefectures.
The whole variety of flooded homes has expanded to 273 in Aichi and 717 buildings in Shizuoka.
Emergency response measures resembling piling up soil have been carried out in each prefectures, the place a number of river embankments collapsed, the report added.
Local authorities have been additionally ramping up efforts to revive the water provide in some residential areas and clear up colleges in Aichi prefecture, the place the nation’s highest-level evacuation alert was issued.
The extreme climate circumstances, which additionally disrupted transportation companies nationwide over the weekend, had been brought on by heat and moist air blowing from close to Typhoon Mawar, which was passing south of the nation, and a rain entrance hanging over Japan’s principal island Honshu, in keeping with the Japan Meteorological Agency.