TOKYO, June 21 (Xinhua) — Heavy rain hit southwestern Japan’s Amami Oshima Island on Wednesday, with a whole lot of residents being remoted and hundreds of households dealing with water provide cuts, native media reported.
As of two p.m. native time, an evacuation order was in place for 1,193 individuals from 735 households in Amami City and the villages of Yamato and Uken on the island in Kagoshima Prefecture, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Four sections of prefectural roads in Uken have been closed within the space resulting from landslides or flooding, and 365 individuals from 228 households in six communities stay remoted, stated the report.
The Koniya district of the city of Setouchi had 392 millimeters of rain over the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. native time, which was virtually the typical for all of June and a document for the month within the space, in response to the NHK.
In Setouchi, the water provide for about 4,000 households, or virtually all the city, has been reduce, it added.
Weather officers stated localized torrential rain would possibly fall within the Amami area by way of Wednesday evening and warned of potential landslides, swollen rivers and flooding in low-lying areas.